Settlers besiege Palestinian family’s West Bank home since yesterday

Settlers have been surrounding the home of a Palestinian family on the outskirts of the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, for more than a day, preventing the family from entering or leaving.

Youssef Hassan, the homeowner, who lives there with his wife and their two young daughters, aged two and four, tells The Times of Israel by phone that settlers erected a makeshift structure in front of the entrance to his home yesterday and have since prevented anyone from entering or leaving, leaving him trapped inside. He says they also cut the electricity lines.

Video footage shows settlers gathered in the structure near the house. In another clip, they can be seen attempting to open one of the gates to the yard.

Hassan says he has lived in the house for five years. Settlers began coming to the property and harassing the family around seven months ago, he says, but the situation escalated over the past two days when they blocked the access routes to the home.

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He adds that he is trying to find a way to get his wife and daughters out of the house because of the danger he says the settlers pose to them.

Soldiers were filmed yesterday arriving at the structure erected by the settlers and praying with them. According to Hassan, they later left without removing the settlers.

The IDF has yet to respond to a request for comment.

Doron Meinert, of the group “Looking the Occupation in the Eye,” who was at the scene this morning, says in a statement that the family is “trapped in their home, with a violent and armed settler militia threatening them, with the aim of pressuring them to abandon the house.”

Last month, settlers surrounded a home in the nearby village of Jalud for more than two weeks, after which the family living there fled and settlers took over the property. Settlers remain in the Jalud home to this day, and its owners have been unable to return.