Settlers besiege home: Inside a Palestinian village under weekly attack

AL-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank – A stone house on the edge of this Palestinian village has become a weekly frontline. Israeli settlers, residents say, lay siege to the home, attacking with rocks and threats. The assaults occur with alarming regularity, turning the family’s daily life into a battle for survival. Locals describe the pattern: settlers arrive under cover of darkness or during Friday prayers, when security forces are stretched thin. The home’s location—at the village’s exposed perimeter—makes it an easy target. “They come every week,” one resident said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “We lock the doors and wait.” The attacks are part of a broader surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank, which the United Nations has condemned. Israeli authorities rarely intervene, residents claim. For now, the family barricades their windows and prays the next assault does not turn deadly.