A report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday revealed that the Israeli government is leading a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the West Bank amid a surge in settler attacks. The report accuses Israel of implementing a policy of formal annexation to expand its control over Palestinian territory.
Details: The 150-page report details how the Israeli government is accelerating what it describes as a state-led campaign of annexation and forced displacement in the occupied West Bank, specifically targeting Bedouin and pastoral communities in Area C, which is under full Israeli security and administrative control and constitutes approximately 60% of the land.
The report states that “the Israeli government has made formal annexation an explicit political objective. It is implementing the agenda of the religious-nationalist settler movement,” adding that this campaign is state-led and not driven by “rogue settlers,” as some in the international community claim. Amnesty International also said its research showed that “Palestinians are being forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands, cut off from their livelihoods, and terrorized into fleeing their homes amid an unprecedented escalation in settler attacks, which are openly condoned and actively facilitated by the Israeli government, a government that boasts of its intention to formally annex large swaths of Palestinian territory.”
