This week on the channel +8.2M views this week

Netanyahu's Damascus account anchors Middle East Eye's news week

Fifteen uploads also include West Bank reporting, a Gaza footage-mapping project and a Real Talk interview with Demetrius Harmon.

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Middle East Eye Story of October 17, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Netanyahu says he called Syrian president before 2025 bombing of Damascus

Benjamin Netanyahu's account of a call to Syria's president drew the largest audience among Middle East Eye's new uploads. In footage shared by Israeli public broadcaster KAN, he describes contacting Ahmed al-Sharaa before the July 2025 bombing of Damascus, during clashes between Syrian government forces and the Druze community.

That upload reached roughly 47,000 views. But the channel's fastest-moving video right now is its report on a West Bank settler attack that injured Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine. A separate interview gives space to Palestinian-American Haitham Tayseer Abdel Jaber, who recounts being surrounded and assaulted while harvesting olives near Ramallah. Those reports, together with Netanyahu's remarks, account for the strongest current momentum on the channel.

Across the week, Middle East Eye added about eight million views. Its subscriber count held steady, while daily viewing is running below its usual level. Among nearby news channels, Associated Press had a particularly substantial weekly view gain; Channel 4 News and FRANCE 24 English are also drawing larger daily audiences than usual.

The new releases extend beyond immediate statements and field reports. "Mapping the evidence of genocide in Gaza" introduces Archive Genocide's interactive project, which locates photographs and videos on a map. The team says it began with a handful of volunteers seeking to preserve footage. Elsewhere, Real Talk brings in content creator Demetrius Harmon for an interview about his conversion to Islam, giving the week's news-heavy lineup a more personal conversation.

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