Mike Huckabee<\/a> also referred to the settlers\u2019 actions as acts of \u201cterror\u201d.<\/p>\n\u2018This is all a charade\u2019<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from the scene of the siege on Thursday, said Israeli soldiers initially tried to move the trapped families out of their homes while settlers remained camped outside.<\/p>\n
The families refused, not trusting that the Israeli soldiers would allow them back into their homes, and were eventually grouped together in one home. Residents have watched settlers push families out and then take over their properties in the past, she reported.<\/p>\n
Qusra has faced settler attacks for decades, Ibrahim explained, and residents tie the rise in violence to the spread of illegal settlements and the lack of accountability for attackers.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Israeli military said its troops dismantled \u201ctwo illegal outposts\u201d in Qusra and a nearby village, and detained one Israeli. It said more soldiers were sent to \u201ccarry out defensive missions and patrols\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, Ibrahim said most Palestinians believe the Israeli army is staging its response to the settler siege for the cameras, and they expect the settlers will eventually return.<\/p>\n
Abdel Azim Wadi, the mayor of Qusra, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army has been protecting and helping the settlers. \u201cWe saw them praying together, barbecuing together and dancing together,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are not very interested in helping the besieged families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Qusra resident Abdul Kareem Hassan told Al Jazeera that he had been sleeping in his car for seven months in order to protect his home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is all a charade,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they [the Israeli army] were serious, the whole operation would not take them one hour. We\u2019re talking about 20 settlers. If they would treat them the same way they treat Palestinians, they could finish in less than an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another day without respite<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli settlers and soldiers continued their elevated campaign of violence against Palestinians, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces issued demolition notices for homes in Kafr Sur, the Jalazone camp and farmers\u2019 shelters in al-Jiftlik.<\/p>\n
In Qalqilya, soldiers detained seven relatives of a Palestinian fighter killed in a 2024 strike. Soldiers also detained three Palestinians amid a settler incursion in Burqa, east of Ramallah.<\/p>\n
Settler attacks took place across several towns and villages, including an incident in which three Palestinians, including a child, were pepper-sprayed in their car.<\/p>\n
Settlers also re-established a settlement near Jenin and erected a new outpost on land belonging to a town near Tulkarem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Nations human rights agency and the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates have condemned a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,42,1155,46,44,47,43,45,48,31009,40,38,41,39,4497],"class_list":["post-584160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-headlines","tag-human-rights","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-occupied-west-bank","tag-palestine","tag-racism","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}