Jul 25, 2026 · 8 min · 7 segments
Israeli settler violence has always been state violence: because you don't send your army to protect just anyone. In addition to this violence being on the rise for at least three years now, see how…
Justina PoskeviciuteHostAnd now we're seeing just masses of Israeli settlers literally coming down to Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
And we're seeing that after articles in the Israeli press, you might guess saying that, look, Palestinian terrorism happened.
This photo, this photo, you know, it proves it, where a major piece of context was conveniently omitted.
And what was omitted is actually key in any kind of analysis, any kind of, you know, media analysis.
One, if there is no context about settler violence in general and that the settlers are very often protected by the Israeli army.
So when they come to Palestinian villages and they want to from, you know, burn the houses or kill people there, there is no one there is no one in the illegally occupied land to protect the palestinians because the soldiers are the soldiers one who protect the settlers and they're also the soldiers of the occupying force right so we have to talk about settler violence in general like what is the context like what we're seeing now it's not some like one-off like what are they like what are these what are these unrelated attacks right like what is this According to the UN OCHO, which is the Organization for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, since the beginning of this year, and this report was released in June, so in the first half a year, we had a thousand attacks by settlers in 230 Palestinian communities.
Today, tomorrow, after tomorrow, every day, on average, three attacks in the West Bank.
And indeed, in the past years, we have stats showing that there have been more and more and more violent settler attacks, including sometimes when people are killed.
And now we're seeing just masses of Israeli settlers literally coming down to Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
And we're seeing that after articles in the Israeli press, you might guess saying that, look, Palestinian terrorism happened.
This photo, this photo, you know, it proves it, where a major piece of context was conveniently omitted.
And what was omitted is actually key in any kind of analysis, any kind of, you know, media analysis.
One, if there is no context about settler violence in general and that the settlers are very often protected by the Israeli army.
So when they come to Palestinian villages and they want to from, you know, burn the houses or kill people there, there is no one there is no one in the illegally occupied land to protect the palestinians because the soldiers are the soldiers one who protect the settlers and they're also the soldiers of the occupying force right so we have to talk about settler violence in general like what is the context like what we're seeing now it's not some like one-off like what are they like what are these what are these unrelated attacks right like what is this According to the UN OCHO, which is the Organization for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, since the beginning of this year, and this report was released in June, so in the first half a year, we had a thousand attacks by settlers in 230 Palestinian communities.
Today, tomorrow, after tomorrow, every day, on average, three attacks in the West Bank.
And indeed, in the past years, we have stats showing that there have been more and more and more violent settler attacks, including sometimes when people are killed.
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