Jewish settlers clash with Israeli security forces to prevent Palestinian family’s return to West Bank home

TEL AVIV — Dozens of Jewish settlers repulsed an attempt by Israeli security forces to return a Palestinian family to its home in the occupied West Bank before setting fire to its property and car. Several Israeli border police officers were injured, the Israeli military said in a statement.

The Tubassi family was forced to leave its home in July following a weekslong siege by violent settlers in the West Bank town of Jalud. But after security forces tried to enforce an order by Israel’s High Court of Justice to facilitate the family’s return Monday night, an extended and violent confrontation ensued, Mahmoud Tubassi, 60, said.

“I went through a terrifying experience that I could never have imagined,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “We saw death with our own eyes. Death came very close to us at the hands of the settlers.”

It is the second time that Tubassi and his wife, Aida Ahmed Abdullah, 51, have suffered at the hands of Jewish settlers in just over a month. On Aug. 28, masked settlers attacked and injured them and an NBC News crew that was interviewing them. The crew were injured and Abdullah was beaten unconscious but has…

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