Pope Leo XIV has called for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, amid a surge of settler attacks, including a siege in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, and a separate assault on the small village of Al-Tuba, in the southern Masafer Yatta region.
In Qusra, settlers encircled houses after cutting off water and electricity, in what rights groups say is a bid to seize more land. In Al-Tuba, settlers set fire to homes on the night of Wednesday 5 August, in what residents described as an unprovoked attack.
