The Qusra File
Running file · 44 storiesMore than a month at Ras al-Ein: the siege that began 9 August still holds three houses and fifteen people of the Abu Rida and Hassan families behind an army-controlled gate, food, medicine and family visits needing days of military coordination, and the couple's two daughters unable to reach school — the education ministry marked the new school year in solidarity with them. "We are alone here. We cannot go anywhere and no one can come to visit us," resident Ruqaya Hassan said. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee visited on 5 September and called the settlers "Israeli terrorists"; Israeli media reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered roughly 100 illegal outposts dismantled under US pressure, though no enforcement timeline has been set and settlers keep moving freely through the closed military zone the army itself declared. The file's first arrest, a 19-year-old settler held over the 29 August attack, followed a High Court petition by ten Qusra residents arguing the army never enforced its own closure order; a reservist filmed praying alongside the settlers was dismissed with no further disciplinary action reported.
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