Monthly Palestinian injuries from Israeli settler violence have surged to 105 per month in 2026, up from 69 in 2025 – a 52% increase that has received virtually no coverage in Western media.
The attacks are not military operations. They are not responses to security threats. They are civilians, often armed, often protected by nearby IDF units, attacking Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank. Olive groves burned. Homes vandalised. People beaten on roads they have walked for generations.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, the humanitarian crisis has reached a stage where the most basic items of infant care have become unaffordable. Mothers cannot buy diapers. Not because diapers do not exist, but because the economic destruction of 20 months of bombardment and blockade has made a $3 item an impossibility for families surviving on nothing.
A 20-month peaceful protest movement in Gaza has gone entirely unmentioned in mainstream Western coverage. The narrative framework requires Palestinians to be either violent or invisible. Peaceful resistance does not fit the story that justifies the response.
The numbers tell their own story. One hundred and five injuries per month from settler violence. Not from war. Not from military operations. From neighbours who believe the land belongs to them and have the backing of a state that agrees.
When 105 people are injured every month and the world does not notice, the question is not whether the violence is happening. It is who benefits from the silence.
