Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

In the middle of the night on March 12, Israeli settlers raided the Palestinian herding community of Khirbet Humsa in the northern Jordan Valley. Oren Ziv (Local Call) reported on the attack, where settlers tied up and beat protective presence activists and Palestinian residents, sexually assaulting one man — an unusually severe assault amid escalating violence and displacement in the region.

With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran showing no signs of slowing down, the sound of sirens has become a constant for Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel alike. But as Samah Watad and Baker Zoubi (Local Call reporter) explained, decades of neglect have left Palestinian citizens unprotected from missile fire, all while police are carrying out arrests for expressions of dissent and failing to address an unprecedented wave of violent crime in Palestinian communities.

Last week, Israel’s top military lawyer dropped all charges against five soldiers filmed abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman, the Israeli military base-turned-detention facility. In doing so, Michael Sfard argued, Israel has abandoned the whole masquerade of accountability — and the truth about Israel’s military justice system has been set free (originally published on Local Call).

And Shimaa Elyoussef wrote about “Sohab Al-Ard,” an Egyptian Ramadan TV drama that has brought the genocide in Gaza to millions of living rooms across the Arab world. But while Israel has lambasted the show, its reception in Gaza has been mixed.

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