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US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’
Israeli settlers have blocked the homes of three Palestinian families in Qusra, cutting them off from food and supplies.
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Israeli settlers have blocked the homes of three Palestinian families in Qusra, cutting them off from food and supplies.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam rejects Israel’s claim that villages destroyed in southern Lebanon were military sites.

Palestinian family’s home demolished despite court order, leaving them homeless under sweltering heat in the West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a US-backed peace plan for Gaza last week offered a diplomatic victory to Hamas, according to some analysts. The Palestinian Islamist movement had agreed to gradually give up weapons in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but agreeing on the definition of "disarmament" may prove a sticking point.