Middle East Monitor Says Palestinians Face Ongoing Genocide in Gaza

The sources frame the war on Gaza as an existential threat faced by Palestinians rather than by Israel, with Middle East Monitor arguing that “In Gaza, Palestinians face an ongoing genocide” and that “An existential threat exists in Palestine’s reality, not in Israel’s imagination.”

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Haaretz

Middle East Monitor also contrasts Gaza with the occupied West Bank, writing that “in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians face settler and collaborator violence from Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s security services.”

Haaretz

The same article ties its framing to the role of Israeli settlers under state protection, stating that “settler violence started before the Nakba” and that it “suit[ed] Israel’s purpose to encourage it.”

It further asserts that “Zionism depended on settler presence, just as Israel does now,” and argues that “Without settler presence, Israel would face an existential crisis as the demography would change significantly.”

While the Gaza-focused language is explicit in Middle East Monitor’s framing, the other sources in the set concentrate on West Bank incidents and settler violence, leaving Gaza itself without a detailed incident timeline in the provided text.

Taken together, the sources present a narrative in which Gaza is treated as the central arena of Palestinian survival, while the West Bank is described as a parallel theater of violence and coercion.

The war on Gaza, in this set of articles, is therefore positioned through a broader argument about state protection, settler-colonial structures, and Palestinian vulnerability.

A separate thread in the provided sources describes Israeli forces standing by during settler violence in the West Bank, which the Jerusalem Post attributes to Army Radio reporting.

The Jerusalem Post says that “IDF soldiers stood by while extremist Jewish rioters set fire to a Palestinian home in the West Bank and beat an elderly man,” and it places the incident in the village of Jalud.

Middle East Monitor

It adds that soldiers “arrived at the village of Jalud after the rioters arrived, then stood by their vehicles for around five minutes without taking action against any of the 12 settlers who participated in the event.”

The Jerusalem Post reports that “Eyewitnesses said that one of the soldiers told the rioters to leave, or else they would be arrested, allowing most of them to escape,” and it states that “Only one out of the 12 Israelis was arrested.”

It also relays other eyewitness claims that rioters acted violently against IDF troops and Border Police officers, including “intentionally ramming an IDF vehicle” and “placing roadblocks to hamper Border Police vehicles from arriving at the scene.”

The Jerusalem Post further says that the IDF “did not deny the allegations against it,” and it quotes the explanation that the decision to arrest only one of the twelve rioters was made “due to the law enforcement members being outnumbered, as well as in order to prioritize dispersing the confrontation and extinguishing the fire.”

In the same article, the Jerusalem Post links this to a broader pattern, stating that “The West Bank has seen an upturn in violence from Israelis against Palestinian residents in recent months.”

The Jerusalem Post situates the Jalud incident within a wider escalation of violence and public reaction, citing additional events and a protest in Tel Aviv.

“Slowly, amidst the high green weeds of April, Eyad Yousef moves forward in a white bee-keeping suit, inclined forward and looking toward the ground”

Mondoweiss

It says that “Last week, Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence reported that two Palestinians had been killed in the village of Mughayir, including one child, after Israeli settlers attacked a local school,” and it adds that “The Palestinian Red Crescent Society later confirmed that two Palestinians had been killed, a 14-year-old and a 32-year-old.”

The Jerusalem Post also reports that the Red Crescent Society “stated that four others had been wounded by gunfire during the incident,” and it describes a separate protest where “hundreds of Israelis protested against settler violence at Habima Square in Tel Aviv.”

In that protest context, the Jerusalem Post includes the statement of tour guide Oded Papourish, saying he emphasized that settler violence “relies on the understanding that Israel's law enforcement will always stand by their side.”

The same article also references injuries in the West Bank violence, noting that “several individuals and activists injured in the West Bank violence” spoke at the protest.

Middle East Monitor, meanwhile, uses a different set of claims to argue that settler violence is not merely extremist but is embedded in a broader colonial structure, writing that “Settler violence started before the Nakba” and that “it suited Israel’s purpose to encourage it.”

It also asserts that “One cannot disagree with settler violence without disagreeing what Israel stands for,” and it frames the issue as a systemic one rather than a limited outbreak.

Another source in the set, WAFA via وكالة الانباء والمعلومات الفلسطينية, describes settler destruction of olive trees in Jalud and provides detailed geographic and historical context about the village’s surroundings.

It states that “Israeli settlers today destroyed more than 30 olive trees in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank,” and it attributes the account to a local source.

The Jerusalem Post

The report names Ghassan Daghlas, head of the settlement file for the northern occupied West Bank, saying he told WAFA that the settlers destroyed “more than 30 olive trees south of Jalud belonging to citizen Rajeh Muhammed Salameh Hammoud.”

It describes Jalud as “home to about 800 Palestinians,” and it says the village is “flanked by 10 outposts, a settlement, and a camp of the Israeli occupation army, surrounding the south and east of the village.”

The WAFA report also provides a timeline of colonization around Jalud, stating that colonization expanded from the south to the east starting from “the settlement Shilo established in 1978,” then “Shvut Rachel in 1991,” and “the outpost Kida in 2003,” reaching “the outpost Ahyah in 1997,” “the outpost Adi Ad in 1998,” “the outpost Esh Kodash in 2000,” and “the settlement Amichai in 2018.”

It further claims that “Eight hundred people living in Jalud, surrounded by more than 7,000 settlers,” have “for years suffered from settler terrorism against their families and property” and “arbitrary measures by the Israeli occupation authorities, including land seizures.”

The report adds land figures, saying “The village’s land area is 22,400 dunams, of which 17,500 dunams have been absorbed through settlements, army camps, and closures for security reasons since 2001.”

The provided sources also connect settler violence and land pressure to institutional and economic consequences, including changes in funding and the destruction of agricultural livelihoods.

“Nablus, June 30, 2021 — WAFA: Israeli settlers today destroyed more than 30 olive trees in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, according to a local source”

وكالة الانباء والمعلومات الفلسطينية

Haaretz reports that “The Jewish National Fund, known in Hebrew as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is stopping most of its funding of programs in settler outpost farms in the West Bank,” and it identifies the change in the context of an article dated “April 28, 2026.”

وكالة الانباء والمعلومات الفلسطينية

The Mondoweiss report, meanwhile, describes how Palestinian farmers say they have been pushed off their land by settler threats, focusing on Eyad Yousef in the village of Taybeh east of Ramallah.

It quotes Yousef asking, “If the price for plowing a dunam of land is around 100 shekels these days, how expensive do you think a jerrycan of olive oil would be? Who would even buy it?” and it says Yousef is “not working his own land anymore, because it has been made inaccessible by the threat of Israeli settlers, who permanently patrol the plain on the eastern edge of the village.”

Mondoweiss adds that “Since October 2023, attacks from Israeli settler groups on Palestinian farmers in the West Bank have increased exponentially,” and it cites the Palestine Information Center claim that “Israeli settler groups have carried out more than 8,000 attacks on Palestinians since October 2023.”

It also cites OCHA for the claim that “Israeli forces have demolished more than 1,000 Palestinian farming structures in the West Bank in 2025 alone.”

The report also includes a specific account of intimidation, stating that “Three Israeli settlers arrived in a car, one of them armed, and he told me to go away,” and that the settler told him, “this land is no longer part of Taybeh.”