The forceful land grab is being ignored by the Israeli Military and Government…
NY Times….
Two Palestinian families have been trapped since Sunday inside their homes on a rocky West Bank hillside by a group of violent Israeli settlers, who set up a tent in the front yard of one of the houses. Residents say about 10 to 15 settlers have been attacking them around the clock, throwing stones and an ax.
Early Wednesday morning, after news of the siege began to draw news attention, the Israeli army’s commander for the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, showed up in the village of Qusra and listened as one of the families described how the settlers had been terrorizing them since January. Outside, his soldiers tried to disperse the settlers with tear gas.
Yet, by 10:20 a.m., videos from security cameras show, the soldiers had left. Soon after, residents said, the settlers resumed their attacks.
“We had some hope in the morning when we saw that the army was present,” Aisha Hassan, 35, who was in the meeting with General Bluth, said by telephone, even as she said one of the settlers was throwing stones at her. “But when we saw that the army could not stop the settlers — now, honestly, we are more afraid.”
On Wednesday evening, the army said in response that it was assigning an extra battalion to the West Bank to try to “strengthen order and operational control in the area.”
The army’s initial retreat and broader struggle to contend with settler violence cast a spotlight on the increasingly chaotic situation in the West Bank, where hundreds of Israeli settlers have been terrorizing Palestinians with near-impunity all year.
As of late July, 18 Palestinians have been killed by settlers, one more than in all of 2025, according to U.N. data. Settlers have been boasting on social media of their attacks, posting videos showing mosques that have been torched in Palestinian towns…..
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