A Palestinian American's journey to his West Bank home under settler siege
By Pesha Magid QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 17 (Reuters) - He watched from thousands of miles away on a security camera feed as militant Israeli settlers encircled his West Bank house, fearing he could lose his home forever amid increasing Israeli seizures of Palestinian property in the occupied territory. Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American living in Toledo, Ohio, owns one of three homes that have been…
QUSRA, WEST BANK - Palestinian American Loui Ridi took to the streets of his village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank with an American flag flying high over his residence. The objective was to discourage militant settlers who had surrounded his property for over a week. Ridi made the trip to Qusra on Monday evening, anxious about the potential loss of his home to Jewish settlers encroaching upon three Palestinian homes.
On Tuesday morning, as Ridi strolled among his cherry and fig trees, a settler emerged from the hillside and approached him. The confrontation was captured by Reuters, the sole media presence at the scene.
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