Jalud

A war crime.

Now, the siege on Qusra started as settlers, now it's settlers and soldiers besieging these three families inside their homes, around 12 people, in the village of Qusra, which is right next to Jaloud, south of Nablus.

And now it's been over a month of this siege.

When the army intervened, they put up military points around the homes, they took over one of the homes and pushed the family into another one of these three homes they stayed in the house so they turned it into a military outpost and are taking part in this siege so this is them working together closing in more and more on the villages and after the villages, we may see them come to the cities.

In fact, the interview where I read this in 572 magazine gave the example of a guy called Mahmoud Tawbasi.

And this happened last month in Jalud.

where settlers basically came, they tried to intimidate him, they said to him and gave him an ultimatum, you have one hour to leave safely or you will die in this house.

And so now his family have evacuated, settlers now occupy his home.

Mm-hmm.

Confrontations at the nearby towns of Kusra and Jalud prompted swift condemnations, this time even from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, noted anti-Zionist.

[laughs] This dude-

And US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who has gone so far as to label the settlers as terrorists, further amplifying the swift accusations against the settlers.

That could never happen.

[laughs] Oh, boy.

"Nearby at Jalud, an NBC crew had arrived to interview a Palestinian woman, Aida Ahmed Abdullah, wife of Mahmoud Tubasi, about her house in Jalud, which had been under, quote, 'siege by Israeli settlers.' As captured on video taken by NBC, a f- group of around four masked men suddenly arrived and attacked the group with clubs just as the crew was about to visit Tubasi's home." And I've seen this video.

You've seen this video.

Um, And there was an attack on one or more of those homes on Saturday that included apparently IDF personnel who showed up and instead of protecting the homes, as is their ostensible job, They joined in on the attack from what I saw reported.

Around that same time in the village of Jalud, which is also in the same vicinity in northern West Bank near Kusra, you may have seen – people may have seen this one because it involved Americans, a group of – settlers basically attacked, assaulted an NBC News crew and a Palestinian woman whom they were interviewing, put the Palestinian woman in the hospital.

This was broadcast.

NBC had video of it.

According to reporting from Reuters and Al Jazeera, Israeli forces working alongside settlers demolished Palestinian homes in the towns of Birzeit, Nablus and Burka on Tuesday.

And over the weekend, NBC News correspondent Matt Bradley and his team were attacked by a group of masked settlers while interviewing a Palestinian woman, Aida Ahmed Abdullah, in the town of Jalud.

In this video, you can see the masked men attacking the NBC crew and their car with sticks and rocks.

Bradley said, they jumped out and beat us, then jumped back in the car.

So we actually spoke the other week about how Israeli settlers were intimidating Palestinians in the West Bank, moving in on some of their homes.

On Saturday, you were actually there speaking with a Palestinian woman, Aida Ahmed Abdullah, in the town of Jalud.

Why were you there? What brought you to Jalud to speak to this woman?

Yeah, well, when we set out, of course, we didn't want to make the story about us.

We wanted to make it about the Toubassi family.

And then you've got the news that an American news group was just violently ambushed in broad daylight in the West Bank by Israeli settlers.

Right, because over the weekend, you had NBC News foreign correspondent Matt Bradley and his team in the Palestinian town of Jaloud near Nablus.

And they were interviewing a 51-year-old Palestinian woman by the name of Ada Ahmed Abdullah, who says that she had been forcibly evicted from her home by Israeli settlers.

And while walking toward the house, a car with Israeli license plates reversed up the hill toward them, and at least four masked men jumped out, wielding wooden clubs and throwing rocks.