Image: Ro Khanna during a visit to Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 9 July 2026. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters

Marina Dunbar of The Guardian reports: “The US congressman Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained him during a visit to the Israel-occupied West Bank recently, describing the experience as a first-hand view of the realities faced by Palestinians living under occupation.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday from a Palestinian village, the progressive US House Democrat from California said his detention happened the previous day while his delegation visited an area of the southern West Bank that has experienced repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.

Khanna recounted how settlers carrying US-made M4 rifles surrounded the group’s van…”

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