Pesha Magid

Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied ​West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack since a siege by settlers in the area earlier this month drew ‌an international outcry.

After watching anxiously from the U.S. for seven sleepless nights Loui Ridi decided to board a flight from Detroit for the Middle East and try to ⁠visit his home.

Families on the outskirts of Qusra, the West Bank village where Palestinian homes have been under siege for nearly a week, said they have faced sometimes deadly attacks by militant settlers for months.

On a searing summer day, Israeli settlers splashed in a West Bank pool created by siphoning off water that had irrigated Palestinian crops, one of many seizures of water resources across ​the occupied territory.

Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish settler over the killing of a Palestinian community ‌leader last year in the West Bank, the first such indictment in more than seven years amid a rise in settler violence in the occupied territory.

Israeli forces shot and wounded at least one Palestinian, ‌arrested at least three, and closed entrances to the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank on Friday as more than 100 Israeli settlers marched towards the village, residents said.

On a cool night in June, some 15 Palestinians from the town of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank gathered on a hilltop to watch the shadowed valleys below for any sign of movement ​that might signal an impending Israeli settler attack.

An Israeli rights organisation petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday to demand ​the immediate release of 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza who have been held without charge for more than a year.

A Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied ​West Bank received demolition orders for 15 shops on Monday, a day after Israeli ministers celebrated the reestablishment of ‌a settlement on a neighbouring hill.

Donald Trump's Board of Peace has received only a tiny fraction of the $17 billion pledged for Gaza, preventing the ​U.S. president from pushing ahead with his plan for the shattered Palestinian enclave's future, sources told Reuters.