A Mother in Qusra: Children Living Under Constant Settler Threat

In the Palestinian village of Qusra, Palestinian mother Ruqaya Hassan explains how settlers dug up and blocked the main road to her house, posting themselves in a room overlooking the route and attacking anyone who tried to pass. Her daughters have developed deep anxiety: one is too afraid to use the bathroom, convinced settlers will attack, and suffers daytime and nighttime bedwetting. Repeated attempts to move them to relatives’ homes highlight a family trapped between fear and the need to stay.