14/08/2026
Settlers seized Palestinian homes on the edge of Qusra and held the families under siege, cutting off their water and power. This week, at the invitation of the village and the families, more than eighty of us walked in with water and food.
Here is where things stand. Qusra is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, south of Nablus. For days, settlers took over homes at its edge and blockaded the families inside. After strong international pressure, including from the United States and the United Nations human rights office, the army moved in, dismantled an outpost, and pushed the settlers out of the homes. That pressure worked. But it did not end the danger. The settlers are still in the village's fields, still working to frighten these families off their land.
Today we came, invited, with one task: to get a large quantity of water and basic food to a family still under siege. The army and security forces were there in force and handed us a closed military zone order. We insisted on delivering the water and food to the family, and we did. And we demanded that the army enforce that closed zone where it belongs, on the settlers set on driving these families from their homes.
"They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress a household, a family and its land" (Micah 2:2).
In the name of Judaism, we refuse to lend our hand to it.
