With the world’s media coverage fixed firmly on the mounting civilian death toll and a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, illegal settler activity in the occupied West Bank has gone largely unnoticed. Some are still keeping watch, however, not least the UN. The latest quarterly report from the global body’s secretary general to the Security Council identified an increase in the displacement of Palestinians between September 20 and the start of December, but particularly since October 7. It found 143 Palestinian households, or just over 1,000 people including 388 children, were displaced, citing settler violence. The UN secretary…

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