'Israeli settlers laid siege to our home': Inside a Palestinian village under weekly attack
Residents of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir in the West Bank describe a pattern of weekly attacks by Israeli settlers and military operations. The report highlights the daily danger faced by families living in the occupied territory.
Why it matters
It provides a ground-level view of the escalating tensions and violence in the West Bank, which often receives limited international coverage.
'Israeli settlers laid siege to our home': Inside a Palestinian village under weekly attack By Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent , Reporting from Al-Mughayyir, in the occupied West Bank Published 14 minutes ago The large, bolted gate of the Abu Alia family compound in al-Mughayyir village held firm against the teenage settlers; its thin metal bars ringing with each blow, as they smashed it again and again with their clubs.
But the insults hurled by both sides that day passed freely through the bars.
One offensive slur - almost identical in both Hebrew and Arabic - delivered with nonchalant contempt by the Israeli boys bashing at the gate; and with fear and frustration by the Palestinian man inches away from them on the other side, filming the encounter on his phone.
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