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Palestinian American: Israelis Military Always Sides With Illegal Settlers

4 claims checked · Published August 2026 · Checked September 2026

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  1. Claim 1
    Unverifiable95% confidence▶ 0:25
    “Well, it's it's obvious and most of the time the soldiers they are sided with the settlers.”

    The speaker says that, in most cases, soldiers sided with the settlers.

    This is a broad personal assessment, and "most of the time" is not operationally defined. Available reporting documents particular instances of soldiers failing to protect Palestinians or fraternizing with settlers, but it cannot establish the claimed majority across the speaker's experiences.

    The intensifier "most of the time" is judged as stated; the transcript provides no defined time period, population of incidents, or measurable basis for comparing cases.

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  2. Claim 2
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 0:41
    “Settlers attacked my brother and my house. My brother called for help. He called the police. They dispatched an IDF.”

    Settlers attacked the speaker's brother and house, after which the brother called police and an IDF vehicle was dispatched.

    Reporting independently confirms that the brother called police and that an IDF vehicle later arrived, but the sources describe the documented episode primarily as a siege or blockade rather than independently establishing the speaker's wording that the settlers attacked the brother and house.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.

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  3. Claim 3
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 1:04
    “When they built a tent, he called the police. They came. The IDF came and they celebrated in the same tent and they conducted a prayer and they sit down on their table and they were drinking. While my brother and his son trapped in the in the house.”

    During the Qusra incident, soldiers joined settlers in prayer, socialized with them, and left the speaker's brother and nephew trapped in the house.

    Multiple reports describe settlers erecting a tent outside the homes, residents being trapped inside, and IDF soldiers praying and drinking coffee or tea with the settlers. The IDF also confirmed that disciplinary action was being taken against soldiers caught praying with them.

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  4. Claim 4
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 1:22
    “There's other incident the same one that happened in the past. They come. They shake hands. They hug each other and they just simply come and attack my brother for no reason.”

    In another incident, settlers and soldiers greeted one another and then settlers attacked the speaker's brother without justification.

    The transcript does not identify the date, location, participants, or circumstances of this alleged earlier incident. Without those details, the greeting and attack cannot be matched reliably to an independently documented event, and "for no reason" is not an objectively defined condition.

    Sources: none found for this claim.