# Israel sends troops to settler siege as US ambassador calls it an ‘act of terror’

https://mins.news/en/video/21345

- France 24 English, 2026-08-13 14:44 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcAotXi1-rA

> Israeli forces moved on Thursday against rogue settlers besieging Palestinians, amid unusually forceful criticism from the United States. Israel also inaugurated a symbolic settlement elsewhere in the West Bank. The US ambassador condemned the siege as an “act of terror.”

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