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Scenes from Israeli settlers’ siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank

Qusra is in a part of the West Bank that is supposed to be under Palestinian civilian and security control and where Israeli civilians are prohibited from entering.

Israeli soldiers patrol a street in Qusra.

Israeli soldiers patrol a street on Thursday during an operation in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Zain Jaafar / AFP via Getty Images

Aug. 13, 2026, 8:47 PM EDT

By Matt Bradley, Henry Austin and Corky Siemaszko

QUSRA, West Bank — When Jewish settlers besieged the house he owns on a rocky hilltop in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, there wasn’t much Loui Ridi, 46, could do about it. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.

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