Rocks hurled at a Palestinian family's home in Taybeh, filmed by an activist
Middle East Eye's short from the occupied West Bank passed 300,000 views in under a day, and its comment section filled about six times faster than usual.
Middle East EyeStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 329,826 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (19,286).
Activist documents Israeli settler attacking Palestinian home
Middle East Eye posted a short on Monday built entirely from an activist's camera: footage from Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank, of an Israeli settler trying to force his way into a Palestinian family's home and throwing large rocks at the house while the family stayed inside.
The description adds what the activist says about the footage: the settler comes to the family's land every day, twice a day, to harass them. The organization frames the clip as part of a wider pattern of settler violence and land seizure across the territory.
Twenty-one hours after it went up, the clip had passed 300,000 views. A new short on this channel usually ends its first day near 20,000. More than 1,200 people had written under it, where a short typically draws a couple of hundred comments on its first day. Many of them widen the subject beyond Taybeh, to protest at home and to how long such scenes have been going on.
The short shared Monday with another West Bank story on the channel: a clip of Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich saying the world's focus on Gaza and Lebanon had allowed settlement expansion to move ahead. That one drew a much smaller audience. The footage from a single house went much further.
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- Channel
- Middle East Eye
- Subscribers
- 3,850,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 12,750,673
- Channel views, pace per day
- 632,834 (on a normal day: 1,634,756)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 310,479 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 329,826
The numbers
The figures below show how far this one short ran ahead of the channel's usual first day, on a day when the channel overall was quieter than normal.
