In the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee stood among Palestinian American residents and reached for a word that diplomats rarely deploy lightly: terror. His visit in early September 2026 was a quiet but consequential act — an acknowledgment that settler violence against Palestinian communities, surging since the Gaza war began in October 2023, had crossed from the realm of crime into something the United States could no longer describe with softer language. In placing American diplomatic weight behind that word, Huckabee was also placing a question before the Isra
U.S. Ambassador Condemns West Bank Settler Violence as 'Act of Terror'
Palestinian American residents and broader Palestinian communities in the West Bank have experienced months of attacks on their homes, property, and places of worship, creating unsafe living conditions.