Israeli settler siege of Qusra village highlights grim reality of life in West Bank
DUBAI: Since Sunday, Israeli settlers have laid siege to the West Bank village of Qusra to drive out its Palestinian inhabitants and claim their homes as their own.
The harrowing event, which has seen three Palestinian families cut off from water, electricity and the outside world by a settler encampment, is the latest chapter in the escalating settler violence that has plagued the West Bank for decades.
“I think all the events at Qusra are emblematic of the broader problems … settlers have been setting up outposts all over the West Bank,” Chris Doyle, director of the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding, told Arab News.
“They’ve been taking over Palestinian properties. None of that really is new, and we’ve just seen an increasing escalation year-on-year.”
