The systematic destruction of Palestinian livelihoods has been a longterm pattern of settlers, as is evident in this infographic from 2013:
Attacks on West Bank communities have steadily increased throughout the years.
Please see this infographic summarizing the steep rise in settler violence from
2017 to 2022.
However, that violence has risen even more since, with many analysts saying that media attention on Gaza from 2023 onwards has left civilians in the West Bank vulnerable to a steep increase in attacks with little to no scrutiny.
The media did cover Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir’s
distribution of 120,000 weapons permits and arms to illegal settlers. (more
background information
)
Children in the West Bank have suffered the consequences:
Here is a series of reports we have shared on such attacks: