Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.
Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.
Provided below are three important, but underreported, stories bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know this week.
1) Violent West Bank Israeli Attacks Against Palestinians Decreased by 25 Percent Since March
The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel’s Security Agency (Shin Bet), the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli Police have intensified enforcement efforts against violent acts perpetrated by extremist Israelis against Palestinians in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) since March 2026.
When considering all acts of violence, including those that were not life-threatening, the number has declined by 11 percent since March 2026. But the number of attacks that have injured or endangered the lives of Palestinians has declined by 25 percent in the same period.
The coordinated effort to prevent and disrupt such incidents and hold offenders responsible has taken many forms. Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth signed nearly two dozen administrative restriction orders against violent Israelis in recent weeks, banning some from entering the West Bank and placing others under house arrest for months.
The Judea and Samaria District Police also carried out several arrests.
An infinitesimal number of people relative to the more than 500,000 Jews that live in the West Bank are responsible for these violent acts. Israeli security officials estimate there are about 70 principal organizers and 300 followers (~0.07 percent of the Israeli population there), the majority of whom are “anarchist fringe youth who reject parental authority, do not follow rabbinic leadership, and repudiate the authority of the State of Israel and its security institutions.” Most of them do not even reside in the West Bank.
The Post further reported that Israeli officials acknowledge more needs to be done to curb the violence.
Stories and concerns about “settler violence” have been covered frequently in the mainstream media. However, those same outlets did not see fit to cover the recent decrease in such attacks.
2) Despite Believing Israel Might Go Nuclear on Gaza, Yahya Sinwar Still Proceeded with October 7 Invasion
As reported in Jewish and Israeli outlets like The Times of Israel, as well as by the Gatestone Institute, the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Research Institute obtained an August 2022 memo, in former Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s handwriting, which revealed his plans and assessments for the forthcoming October 7 attack on Israel. Sinwar was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Rafah, Gaza, in October 2024.
The Post reported on a similar document last fall, but the current reports from Israeli Channel 12 have new details. In addition to Sinwar’s plans to breach 25 separate areas of the Israel-Gaza border fence, he imagined dispatching a total of 10,000 terrorists to attack 221 small and eight larger southern communities, certain Israeli cities as well as army bases. The IDF estimates that on October 7, about 3,500 Hamas fighters invaded, plus 580 Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists and 1,400 other Palestinians.
Sinwar believed Israel would use any means and weapons it had to respond to the planned massacre, including even an atomic bomb.
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American who describes himself as “pro-peace in Palestine and anti-Hamas,” took to social media upon learning of this news. He called Hamas a genocidal cult for proceeding with a plan that it believed could result on nuclear weapons being unleashed on Gazans.
Hamas is a genocidal cult: Recently uncovered documents from slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar reveal the depth of his depravity and the extent to which he knowingly steered Gaza toward catastrophe. Handwritten notes drafted a year before the attack show…
— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) July 16, 2026
3) Justice, Justice, the British-Israeli Soldier Did Pursue
The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJ Palestine) is now £82,130 poorer thanks to a court ruling directing the “independent organisation of lawyers, academics and politicians that work to promote and support Palestinian rights” to pay the full legal costs of a dual British-Israeli citizen the group tried to prosecute for his service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The Jerusalem Post covered this news as an update to a story from a few weeks ago, when ICJ Palestine applied for a court summons in order to prosecute the soldier for voluntarily serving in the IDF. Because the Britain’s Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870 does not apply to dual citizens, Judge Paul Goldspring called ICJ Palestine’s attempt to privately prosecute the soldier “egregious” and legally “inadmissible.” On June 19, the judge ruled ICJ Palestine needed to pay the soldier’s legal fees, but the exact amount was just revealed.
ICJ Palestine acknowledged its failure of candor after the court’s ruling and apologized both to the court and the soldier. The court also expects ICJ Palestine to attach his decision and the ruling on fees “to any future application it may file in the courts of England and Wales.”
In a climate where around the world there are threats to prosecute those who volunteer to serve in the IDF, it is refreshing to see here that justice was served.