US Democrat Ro Khanna says he was detained by armed Israeli settlers

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US Representative Ro Khanna stated he was detained for 90 minutes by armed Israeli settlers while visiting a village in the occupied West Bank. Khanna reported that the settlers, armed with American-made machine guns, blocked the road and detained him and his aides after they had been observing a destroyed village. He claimed the settlers then contacted the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who he said sided with the settlers. Khanna's aide contacted the US Embassy in Jerusalem for assistance, and they were released after police intervention. The article notes that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law.

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Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since 1967.

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Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal under international law.

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Khanna alleges the settlers called the IDF, who sided with them over the Americans.

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The settlers allegedly used American-made M4 machine guns and blocked the road.

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US Democrat Ro Khanna claims he was detained by armed Israeli settlers in a destroyed village.

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"We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," he said."And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans," Khanna said. While they were detained, an aide who was with Khanna said they made appeals to the US Embassy in Jerusalem for help, and were released after a group of police officers intervened.Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and Jerusalem" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="3077" data-entity-type="location">East Jerusalem - land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state - during the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them.The settlements are illegal under international law.

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