US Ambassador Huckabee slams extreme group of Israeli settlers for seizing Palestinian homes on West Bank

JERUSALEM: In a uncommon connection of choler and disapproval directed astatine a tiny radical of extremist Jewish settlers successful the West Bank, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned their attacks against a location being built by a Palestinian American from Ohio.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) managed to evict the lawbreakers who seized the location and arrested 1 person. But the group, mostly young, disaffected youths, who person acceptable up unauthorized outposts and engaged successful unit targeting Palestinians and their homes successful the West Bank are becoming a increasing occupation for Israeli authorities who are being criticized for not doing capable to halt their convulsive actions.

Ambassador Huckabee posted connected X successful effect to disapproval that his squad had not done enough, "The U.S. Embassy successful Jerusalem has been VERY progressive & the IDF & Israel Police person gone astatine our petition to region the Israeli terrorists doing this. The actions of those doing this to this family’s location is criminal. The WH hasn’t "intervened" due to the fact that we person kept DC apprised of the concern already. Actions by those who carried retired this horrific enactment of panic meant to intimidate and harass this household are disgusting. No excuse for specified thuggish behavior."

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Fox News Digital during an interrogation astatine the American embassy successful Jerusalem, Israel. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ TPS-IL for Fox News)

According to the Associated Press, Israeli settlers person besieged 3 homes successful the occupied West Bank for respective days, including 1 owned by Palestinian American Loui Ridi. The seizure of Ridi’s location took spot successful Qusra, successful the bluish West Bank.

A elder Israeli authoritative from the premier minister's bureau said, "Israel doesn’t judge vigilantes oregon immoderate signifier of unit by juvenile delinquents. We are investing a batch of efforts to curb specified sporadic violence. The IDF sent an further battalion to Judea and Samaria to code the issue. We don’t instrumentality unit lightly. In the archetypal 4th of 2026 alone, determination were implicit 350 investigations opened, starring to 35 arrests. Putting things successful perspective, Jews are attacked astir regular by Palestinian terrorists. There were implicit 300 Palestinian violent attacks against Jews successful May of 2026 alone. The effort to gully a mendacious symmetry betwixt sporadic unit and Palestinian panic is hypocritical."

The authoritative added, "We bash not judge vigilantes. Judea and Samaria is our ancestral homeland. It's wherever Jews came from and person a close to live. The Jewish assemblage successful Judea & Samaria is simply a law-abiding community. We are addressing the juvenile delinquents."

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Israeli settlers tally arsenic they are chased by an Israeli subject conveyance astir Palestinian houses successful the colony of Qusra, southbound of Nablus, successful the occupied West Bank, connected Aug. 13, 2026. (Zain Jaafar / AFP via Getty Images)

Nadav Eyal, a salient Israeli columnist for the ample Hebrew regular Yedioth Ahronoth, told Fox News Digital, "There is an extending statement successful the Israeli governmental sphere, stretching from the near to the right, that immoderate of the actions we are seeing successful the West Bank, successful Judea and Samaria, are, successful actuality, Jewish terrorism. It is much wide than it was ever before. It is considered by Israeli defence apparatus to beryllium a superior problem."

In different station connected X, Huckabee stated,"Settlers" are not the occupation successful Judea/Samaria. "Unsettlers" are. Very tiny number who bash large harm to Palestinian families & to Israel."

With implicit 500,000 Israelis surviving successful Judea and Samaria, much commonly known arsenic the West Bank, leaders of the colony movements slammed the violence. The Jerusalem Post reported that the caput of the Yesha Council, Yisrael Ganz, said, "There is nary spot for privately deciding to found a hilltop outpost successful the gait of a house, adjacent erstwhile it is an amerciable location oregon determination is an effort to instrumentality power of the area," helium said. "There is perfectly nary justification for unit against uninvolved radical oregon against the information forces."

The paper besides quoted Beit El Council caput Shai Alon, who said they were causing "irreversible damage" to Israel and to the colony movement, and described those liable for attacks connected guiltless Palestinians arsenic criminals.

Israeli settlers stitchery successful beforehand of Palestinian houses successful the colony of Qusra, southbound of Nablus, successful the West Bank, connected August 13, 2026.  (Zain Jaafar / AFP via Getty Images)

Wafa, the Palestinian News & Info Agency, reported connected Thursday that the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates "condemned the escalation of Israeli colonist coercion and attacks against the municipality of Qusra."  According to the Ministry’s statement, the "crimes were portion of systematic policies aimed astatine displacing Palestinians and uprooting them from their onshore portion imposing a world that serves plans to annex the West Bank."

Israel's Channel 12 News analyst, Amit Segal wrote connected X that ""Settler unit is simply a delicate contented successful Israel. Only a vanishingly tiny stock of the settler colonisation supports oregon takes portion successful specified acts, but due to the fact that the occupation is exaggerated and utilized to obscure Palestinian unit against them, they bristle astatine proceeding astir it — adjacent from Israel’s top friends."

Israeli soldiers patrol a thoroughfare arsenic they are deployed during an cognition successful the colony of Qusra, southbound of Nablus, successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank, connected Aug. 13, 2026.  Israeli forces moved against rogue settlers laying siege to Palestinians amid unusually beardown U.S. criticism.  (Zain Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)

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Segal said that "The astir damning verdict of the lawsuit comes from Israel’s astir faithful friend, Mike Huckabee. The astir pro-settlement ambassador successful the past of the post, a antheral who volition not truthful overmuch arsenic usage the connection 'settler'— called the men astatine Qusra 'Israeli terrorists."'

He added that "For 4 days, the astir susceptible subject successful the Middle East could not wide a way for a household to scope its ain beforehand door. The household lives connected the outskirts of Qusra, southbound of Nablus. On Sunday, settlers from the encampments seeded by the Tel Talpiot outpost sealed the entranceway to their location and would not fto them successful oregon out."

Fox News Digital sent a property query to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.