Behind the noise of an ‘Iran deal’, Palestine continues to burn
Key takeaways
- Israel’s war on the Palestinians never stopped; the world just stopped watching.
- They probably are not aware of the relentless, escalating Israeli violence across the rest of the occupied territories, either.
- As a result, much of the Western public, from the United States to Germany, appears to be under the impression that Palestine is now somewhat old news.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Israel’s war on the Palestinians never stopped; the world just stopped watching.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Palestinian father Fahd Abou Haikal carries the body of his seven-month-old son Sam during his funeral in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on June 6, 2026. (AFP)Most people in the West, even those who follow international news avidly, have likely not heard of Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, the seven-month-old Palestinian baby Israeli soldiers shot in the face and killed near Hebron in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.
They probably are not aware of the relentless, escalating Israeli violence across the rest of the occupied territories, either. Indeed, Western media rarely talk about West Bank villages like Sinjil, encaged in barbed wire, its residents forbidden to access their own land. News bulletins rarely mention how Israeli settlers continue to set fire to homes and cars, harass, threaten and torture Palestinian villagers while enjoying the Israeli military’s full support and protection. The fact that more than half of Gaza has been de facto annexed by the occupation in the past few months, and that Palestinians in the war-torn enclave are still starving, unable to access life’s most basic necessities, is buried at the bottom of long articles about Israel’s supposed security concerns and struggles.