While coverage of the current conflict has focused on Israel’s military operation in Gaza, Palestinian groups and their supporters, Sky News reports, are drawing attention to violence elsewhere in the occupied territories.

In the non-Hamas-ruled West Bank, Israeli settler attacks have killed 29 people this year, according to the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

At least eight of them have come since the October 7 attacks alone, raising concerns among ordinary Palestinians, Israeli security experts and Western officials.

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, one of at least two senior government ministers living in the settlements, said he had ordered the purchase of 10,000 rifles to arm Israeli civilians, including settlers, after the Hamas attacks.

Ben Gvir’s office said on October 11 that 900 assault rifles had been distributed to areas in the northern West Bank near Lebanon, and that thousands more would soon be distributed.

Today, B’Tselem, a Jerusalem-based non-profit organization whose stated goals are to document human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, reported significant violence in Deir Sharaf, a Palestinian city in the West Bank.

The organization published a video on the network, which, according to it, shows how shops and cars are set on fire at the entrance to the city.

“If this is not terrorism, what is?” asked the ambassador and head of the Palestinian mission to the UK, Husam Zumlot.