Like many American-born Palestinians, Abu Awwad, a 38-year-old truck driver, planned to move his family to “our homeland” for two or three years, so his American-born children, aged three, 11 and 14, “could learn the language and the culture.” It’s what his father did with him when he was a kid growing up in the US.

He and his wife, Dina, who became a US citizen through marriage, shipped their furniture to a house that his father had built in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, next door to the house where Dina grew up.

Their plan went up in flames. Literally.

Source: Israeli Squatter-Settlers Rampage in Palestinian-Americans’ West Bank Hometown