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  "id": 759398,
  "title": "Israel sends more troops to West Bank village besieged by Jewish settlers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/israel-sends-more-troops-to-west-bank-village-besieged-by-jewish",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T10:46:42.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/israel-sends-more-troops-west-bank-village-besieged-jewish-settlers"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "By Ali Sawafta QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Thursday it had sent more troops to a West Bank village where settlers have trapped Palestinian families inside their homes, a siege the Palestinians say is aimed at forcibly displacing them from their land. The siege began at the weekend when Jewish settlers closed off the road to the three homes in the Palestinian…",
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        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "‘No excuse for thuggish behaviour’: US envoy blasts Israeli settler siege in West Bank, calls it ‘terror’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/no-excuse-for-thuggish-behaviour-us-envoy-blasts-israeli-settler",
        "published": "2026-08-13T07:57:02.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Le Monde English",
        "title": "West Bank: US ambassador to Israel denounces siege of Palestinian homes as 'horrific act of terror'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/west-bank-us-ambassador-to-israel-denounces-siege-of-palestinian",
        "published": "2026-08-13T08:11:51.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/us-diplomat-calls-israeli-settler-siege-of-west-bank-homes-act-of",
        "published": "2026-08-13T08:38:13.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "US ambassador to Israel slams settler siege against West Bank Palestinians as ‘terror’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/us-ambassador-to-israel-slams-settler-siege-against-west-bank",
        "published": "2026-08-13T09:14:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Times of Israel",
        "title": "IDF said to evacuate Palestinian homes in West Bank’s Qusra as settler squatters stay put",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/idf-said-to-evacuate-palestinian-homes-in-west-banks-qusra-as-settler",
        "published": "2026-08-13T10:02:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Haaretz",
        "title": "Israeli settlers move back to northern West Bank settlement evacuated in 2005",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/israeli-settlers-move-back-to-northern-west-bank-settlement-evacuated",
        "published": "2026-08-13T10:40:18.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBC News",
        "title": "Violence directed at West Bank family a 'horrific act of violence,' U.S. ambassador to Israel says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/violence-directed-at-west-bank-family-a-horrific-act-of-violence-u-s",
        "published": "2026-08-13T12:30:38.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al-Monitor",
        "title": "Israel reopens once-closed West Bank settlement",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/israel-reopens-once-closed-west-bank-settlement",
        "published": "2026-08-13T17:30:29.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Qatar Tribune",
        "title": "US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/us-diplomat-calls-israeli-settler-siege-of-west-bank-homes-act-of-810947",
        "published": "2026-08-13T21:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}