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Ali Sawafta

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · By Ali Sawafta and Lina Obeid Sep 29, 2026

    Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, blocking family's return home (opens the original)

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    JALUD, West Bank, Sept 29 (Reuters) - More than 100 Israeli settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank, preventing a Palestinian family from returning home and clashing with troops, witnesses said. Two houses belonging to the Tubasi family in Jalud village were seized by settlers weeks ago, amid a surge of settler violence and land seizures that have drawn international condemnation. The family had been staying elsewhere in the village, north of the city of Ramallah in the Palest

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ali Sawafta and Lina Obeid

    Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, blocking family's return home (opens the original)

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    JALUD, West Bank, Sept 29 (Reuters) - More than 100 Israeli settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank, preventing a Palestinian family from returning home and clashing with troops, witnesses said. Two houses belonging to the Tubasi family in Jalud village were seized by settlers weeks ago, amid a surge of settler violence and land seizures that have drawn international condemnation. The family had been staying elsewhere in the village, north of the city of Ramallah in the Pale

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta

    Abbas pledges first Palestinian parliamentary vote in 20 years as doubts mount (opens the original)

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    Sept 24 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed plans to hold legislative elections on November 28, the first such vote in 20 years despite serious domestic doubts it will go ahead, as he seeks to advance internationally backed reforms. Abbas, 90, used a pre-recorded video address to the UN General Assembly to condemn US restrictions on the Palestinian delegation's access to UN headquarters, calling them a breach of Washington's obligations as host nation. "We have completed t

  4. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · By Ali Sawafta and Alexander Cornwell Sep 5, 2026

    US ambassador visits Palestinian town amid rise in West Bank settler violence (opens the original)

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    TURMUS AYYA, West Bank, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday met with Palestinian Americans, including relatives of U.S. citizens killed by Israeli settlers, in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank that has been the target ofsettler attacks. The visit comes as settler violence, and what is widely perceived as the Israeli government's inaction, has increasingly drawn international condemnation, including from U.S. allies. The Israeli government has condem

  5. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · By Ali Sawafta

    Israel sends troops into West Bank homes besieged by Jewish settlers (opens the original)

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    QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israeli troops took up positions inside Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Thursday, the mayor said, after settlers trapped Palestinian families this week in a siege Palestinians say is aimed at forcing them from their land. The siege began at the weekend when Jewish settlers closed off the road to the three homes in the Palestinian village of Qusra and set up a tent in their front yards, refusing to allow anyone to enter or leave

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