Inside the Palestinian village under siege by Israeli settlers in the West Bank

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“They’ve decided to literally seize the house,” Mo Ridi told NBC News from Toledo, Ohio. Members of his family are among those trapped in Qusra by settlers who have cut off the water supply and electricity.

Israeli settlers being chased by an Israeli military vehicle around Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday.Zain Jaafar / AFP via Getty Images

Aug. 13, 2026, 8:47 PM EDT

By Matt Bradley and Corky Siemaszko

QUSRA, West Bank — When Jewish settlers besieged the house he owns on a rocky hilltop in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, there wasn’t much Loui Ridi, 46, could do about it. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.

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