Amnesty accuses Israel’s government of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Palestinians from the West Bank
Amnesty says 5,910 Palestinians were displaced by settlement expansion, home demolitions and armed settler attacks, and urges sanctions on senior Israeli officials.
- On Wednesday, Amnesty International released a 149-page report accusing Israel of conducting an 'ethnic cleansing' campaign against Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in the occupied West Bank to facilitate annexation.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, pursued formal annexation of Area C, which encompasses 60 per cent of the territory under Israeli control since the 1990s Oslo agreements.
- Research indicates 27 Bedouin communities were forcibly displaced between 2023 and 2025, as Israeli authorities demolished 3,407 structures in Area C while settlers subjected residents to persistent violence.
- Amnesty International Secretary General Callamard urged states to impose targeted sanctions on officials, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and halt cooperation contributing to 'unlawful occupation'.
- Since late 2022, authorities authorized 102 new settlements—the largest expansion in history—while anti-settlement group Peace Now reports that 212 of at least 363 existing outposts were established since 2023.
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Amnesty accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of West Bank Bedouin communities
Amnesty International has accused Israel of carrying out what it described as a state-led campaign of “ethnic cleansing” against Bedouin and herding communities in the occupied West Bank, saying the measures were intended to accelerate the annexation of Palestinian territory.
Amnesty Accuses Israel of 'Ethnic Cleansing'
Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank with the intention to annex the Palestinian territory. The accusation came in a new, 149-page report alleging that the forced displacement of West Bank Palestinians resulted from a concerted...
Israel would be conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the deliberate aim of annexing Palestinian territory. The accusation is contained in a new report...
Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian Bedouins, major new report finds
Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian Bedouins, major new report finds A campaign of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank is being driven not by rogue extremists, but by the Israeli state, according to a major new report. Amnesty International published the new 150-page report on Wednesday. It found that Israeli authorities were committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer, through a “state-dri…
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