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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">From a Single Home to Entire Villages: Palestinians Plead for the World to End Israel's Siege</h1><div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Quds News Network</div>August 29, 2026<div>
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Palestinians plead for the world to end Israel's siege
on entire villages after the al-Mughayyir raid, as condemnations, even a
rare one from Netanyahu, bring zero action.
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<p>The Palestinian plea to the world has widened from
the desperate to the catastrophic. Only weeks ago, Palestinians were
begging the international community to lift a settler siege on a single
family's home in the village of Qusra. Now they are pleading for the
world to act to save entire villages, as Israel's settlers, shielded by
its army, escalate from besieging individual houses to strangling whole
communities across the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>On Friday, Israeli forces raided the village of al-Mughayyir,
northeast of Ramallah, accompanied by armed settlers who attacked
residents and twice tried to seize their herds of sheep. The Palestinian
Red Crescent said one man was wounded by live fire and two others were
beaten by settlers, and that Israeli troops and settlers delayed the
arrival of ambulances to the wounded. Residents said the soldiers acted
to protect the settlers, who stole around 15 lambs, shot several sheep,
and left one wounded. Three Palestinians were arrested during the
assault. Not one settler was detained.</p>
<p>The raid unfolded as a coordinated operation between the army and the
settlers. It began as municipal workers were planting trees along the
village's main road, when Israeli soldiers moved in and fired tear gas
to stop them. Settlers then staged what residents described as a pretext
for theft, one settler filmed leaving a goat at the village entrance so
it could later be claimed that residents had stolen it, justifying a
seizure of their livestock. By evening, around 20 settlers had gathered
at the village's western entrance alongside a military vehicle, driving
away Palestinian cars as the soldiers stood by, before the army launched
a full raid and the settlers set upon residents with the troops'
protection.</p>
<p>The al-Mughayyir attack is not an isolated event but part of a
systematic campaign that has placed the village and others like it under
what Palestinian officials describe as a suffocating siege. The
Palestinian foreign ministry has called for urgent international action
to end Israel's chokehold on al-Mughayyir and other West Bank towns,
where settlers and soldiers have sealed village entrances, cut residents
off, and turned daily life into a gauntlet of incursions, arson, and
gunfire. What began as attacks on individual families has become the
encirclement of entire populations.</p>
<p>In a surprising and unprecedented move, war criminal Netanyahu issued
a rare public condemnation of settler violence in the occupied West
Bank. The statement marked a striking departure for a leader whose
government is dominated by the settler movement and its most extreme
champions, and who has spent his career enabling exactly the violence he
now claims to denounce.</p>
<p>Netanyahu's unprecedented condemnation appears driven less by
conscience than by mounting American pressure. For more than two weeks,
US officials have been pressing him directly to publicly condemn settler
violence, a demand he had until now refused, wary of confronting the
settlers and his own far-right coalition partners. His sudden reversal
suggests that Washington's pressure, applied since the siege of the
American citizen's family in Qusra, has finally forced a statement out
of him, even as nothing changes on the ground.</p>
<p>For all the words, the reality remains unaltered. In the al-Mughayyir
raid, as in every other, it was Palestinians who were wounded, robbed,
and arrested, while not a single settler was detained, and none ever is.
A week earlier, the army had issued an order barring Israelis from
entering the area after settlers stoned Palestinian vehicles, yet the
order went unenforced, and the settlers returned under the soldiers'
protection. Condemnations, orders, and statements pile up while the
violence proceeds untouched, because none of it is ever backed by
consequences.</p>
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