Overview
- Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked and occupied a Palestinian home in Qusra on Saturday after a campaign of harassment that residents say has isolated parts of the village for almost three weeks.
- Israeli troops and border police later cleared the house, confiscated vehicles they said were used to reach the site and opened a police investigation, but authorities reported few or no arrests.
- Qusra residents and rights groups say soldiers have at times protected or collaborated with settlers, cut water and electricity to force evictions, and imposed military closures that block residents from leaving for food or medical care.
- Security operations have escalated elsewhere in the West Bank, including an unusual Israeli airstrike in Jenin that killed a Hamas member, while Gaza bombardment and UN reports of rising casualties and damaged aid supplies add to humanitarian alarms.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an uncommon public condemnation of the settler violence, opposition figures blamed government policy for enabling extremism, and UN agencies and rights groups warned of growing displacement and legal violations.