US envoy calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’

Above him, a patchwork of dark tarpaulins and old blankets is tied together between a few bent wooden poles – the only thing standing between his family and a sun pushing past 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) in the early afternoon.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the siege a “horrific act of terror.”

Israeli settlers have been condemned by the US ambassador after the home of an American Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank was besieged.

Yisrael Ganz, Governor of the Binyamin Regional Council and Chairman of the Yesha Council, responded to the events in Qusra in which a group of Israelis reportedly attempted to take over a Palestinian Arab house.