Coverage dated August 12, 2026 to August 16, 2026

‘Water and salt’: Qusra residents trapped in Israeli settler siege

Headline from Al Jazeera

Israeli settlers and soldiers besiege Qusra families for eight days, blocking water and aid.

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Reports & sources

13 articles, oldest first.

  1. The Times of Israel

    In Qusra and beyond, settlers are chasing Palestinians out and taking over their homes (opens The Times of Israel)

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    While previous displacements targeted relatively mobile Bedouin communities, extremists have begun forcing occupants out of permanent structures on village outskirts, and then moving in themselves

  2. France 24

    Israeli settlers keep up siege of Palestinian homes despite rare military intervention (opens France 24)

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    The Israeli military Wednesday failed to remove settlers from blockaded Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. The siege began over the weekend, when a group of settlers blocked essential supplies from entering the Palestinian village of Qusra.

  3. Al Jazeera

    US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’ (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Israeli settlers have blocked the homes of three Palestinian families in Qusra, cutting them off from food and supplies.

  4. The Times of Israel

    IDF said to evacuate Palestinian homes in West Bank’s Qusra as settler squatters stay put (opens The Times of Israel)

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    IDF demolishes illegal structures, residents still scared to leave homes; Huckabee says Israeli forces in Qusra at US embassy’s request, blasts 'horrific act of terror' against Palestinian family

  5. Al Jazeera

    Israeli forces order families to evacuate homes in Qusra (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Israeli forces have ordered Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank to evacuate their homes in Qusra

  6. Washington Times

    5 questions about the Qusra settler siege in the northern West Bank (opens Washington Times)

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    For five nights, Israeli settlers surrounded Palestinian homes in Qusra and cut off their water and power, a siege so severe that the U.S. ambassador called it terrorism.

  7. Al Jazeera

    Huckabee calls Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’: Can US push end Qusra siege? (opens Al Jazeera)

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    US ambassador to Israel has issued a rare condemnation of a violent siege on families in the West Bank village of Qusra.

  8. Al Jazeera

    Israeli forces block activists from reaching besieged Qusra families (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    About 15 Palestinians, including two children, have been trapped in three homes in Qusra for nearly a week.

  9. Al Jazeera

    Israeli soldiers accused of supporting ‘terrorist’ settlers in Qusra (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Israeli soldiers accused of supporting ‘terrorist’ settlers in Qusra

  10. Al-Monitor

    Palestinians in Qusra say they have faced militant settler attacks for months (opens Al-Monitor)

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    Al-Monitor's feed description

    By Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Families on the outskirts of Qusra, the West Bank village where Palestinian homes have been under siege for nearly a week, said they have faced sometimes deadly attacks by militant settlers for months.

  11. The Jewish Voice

    Deconstructing the Qusra Narrative: Diplomatic Embrace of “Settler Violence” Disinformation Unmasks Strategic Campaign to Erode Israeli Sovereignty in Judea & Samaria (opens The Jewish Voice)

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    Deconstructing the Qusra Narrative: Diplomatic Embrace of “Settler Violence” Disinformation Unmasks Strategic Campaign to Erode Israeli Sovereignty in Judea & Samaria By: Fern Sidman In what counter-terrorism analysts, local community leaders, and geopolitical observers increasingly identify as an e…

  12. Al Jazeera

    Timeline: The one-week siege of Qusra by Israeli settlers in the West Bank (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Israeli settlers encircle Palestinian homes and cut off supplies, leading to a declaration of a military zone.

  13. Al Jazeera

    ‘Water and salt’: Qusra residents trapped in Israeli settler siege (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    Israeli settlers and soldiers besiege Qusra families for eight days, blocking water and aid.

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