US ambassador to Israel slams settler siege against West Bank Palestinians as ‘terror’

France24•Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 09:14 AM•2 min read

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Thursday denounced a siege by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank village of Qusra as a "horrific act of terror". Huckabee, an evangelical Christian pastor who in the past has embraced Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, said...

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