In March 2023, the UN Human Rights Council received a report about the 700,000 Israeli settlers living in illegal settlements on Palestinian land. In the last 10 years covered (2012-2022) Israeli settlers increased by over 1/3rd from 520k to over 700k. During that same period of 10 years, the UN confirmed 3,372 acts of violence by Israeli settlers.
Displacing and killing Palestinians is long-term Israeli policy pursued systematically for decades now. Oct. 7th just gave Zionists the excuse to speed up the process.