West Bank ethnic cleansing, settler attacks Israel’s state policy: Amnesty
Israel is using war crimes and crimes against humanity to ‘accelerate’ its ‘annexation agenda and settlement expansion’, according to the global rights group.
The displacement of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank forms part of a deliberate Israeli government strategy of ethnic cleansing rather than the actions of a few “rogue” settlers or far-right government ministers, according to global rights group Amnesty International.
The release of Amnesty’s new report comes on Wednesday as the Israeli government has approved record levels of illegal settlement expansion and annexation of large parts of the West Bank in recent months.
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“The [displacement] campaign is not the product of ‘rogue’ settlers, settlers’ organizations or ‘extremist’ government ministers … settler violence is not an aberration but an integral part of an organized state policy,” read the report.
Israeli settler attacks particularly affect Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in the West Bank.
At least 117 villages in the West Bank have been subject to either complete or partial displacement due to settler attacks, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
This resulted in about 5,910 people being “forced to leave their homes” between January 2023 and December 2025, according to the Amnesty International report.
Most of the affected villages were “designated as part of Area C under the 1995 Oslo II Accords, placing [them] under full Israeli military and administrative control”, continued the report. Area C comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank.
For instance, just one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the village of Zanuta, where Palestinian Bedouins have lived for generations, “Israeli settlers established an illegal outpost known as Meitarim Farm in 2021,” said the report.
“The settlers soon began a sustained campaign of violent attacks and threats against Zanuta’s residents,” continued the report, adding that the attacks included settlers breaking into the homes of residents to attack them and emptying “their water tanks and pumping sewage onto their farmland”.
The report says that while the village’s residents “repeatedly reported settler attacks to the Israeli police … no action was ever taken”.
Supreme Court order ignored
In July 2024 and February 2025, Israel’s Supreme Court then ordered the police and military to facilitate residents’ return to their village and protect them from settler attacks.
“The Israeli police and military ignored both rulings [and] every attempt by residents to return was met with continued settler violence and the acquiescence of Israeli forces,” the report said.
Instead of calls for restraint, the settlers “received state backing to intensify their violent campaign”, it added.
In April last year, far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Orit Strock distributed a range of weapons, including all-terrain vehicles, to settlers living in the Hebron area during an event at Meitarim Farm.
“The heroic and pioneering settlers who live here are doing Zionism, and they need security … We are here to build with them and to settle the land,” said Smotrich, who also praised settler land seizures.
“The ethnic cleansing campaign in Area C is state-sanctioned, state-driven and state-implemented; it seeks to accelerate the Israeli government’s annexation agenda and settlement expansion through war crimes and crimes against humanity,” read Amnesty International’s report.
In it, the rights group called on the international community to “prevent the destruction of Palestinian communities and the annexation of the West Bank”.
Israel’s Security Cabinet approved the establishment of 34 illegal settlements in the West Bank in April, the largest number of settlements approved in a single cabinet session.
This brings the total number of illegal settlements approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government since it came to power in late 2022 to 103.
While Israeli forces and settlers have consistently carried out attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank for decades, there has been a surge in attacks since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023.
Over that period, Israeli forces in the West Bank have detained at least 23,000 Palestinians, most of whom were later released.
Hebron West Bank 1929.
ReplyDeleteBefore the Palestinian pogroms of 1929 there were more than 800 Jews living in Hebron. After the pogroms that killed 67 Jewish residents, zero Jews living in Hebron.
That is ethnic cleansing.
Not only just killing, but gruesome butchery. Reported by international writer and historian Pierre van Paassen who actually witnessed the massacre.
Today Hebron is 97% Ishmael, That is Ethnic Cleansing.
Isaac is 20% Ishmael, 2 million.
Arab rioters were incited by false rumours that Jews were massacring Arabs and destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
DeleteSome Arab neighbours bravely sheltered around 430 Jews, which no Jew or Israeli would have done
Seleruh Dunia Sudah Lupa.
ReplyDeleteCyprus invasion and Occupation by Turki the colonizer.
They built Settlements all over northern Cyprus. Kicked out the locals, took over all their land and property.
Sound Familiar?
Why No Global Protes like for Falastinos?
I sagest: no Isaacs involved.
In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus and took possession of 37% of the country, gradually displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots. There has since been an influx of Turkish settlers from the mainland, with as many as 500,000 Turks displacing the natives. How many times have we heard people talking about illegal Turkish settlers/colonizers ?
Almost never. Most people don’t even know about it.
https://x.com/eretzisrael/status/2065083493109969106?s=46&t=8K6fzabO3g6uaj4KxwSSjg
Due to serious provocations by Greek generals who wanted to absorb Cyprus into a Greater Greece
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Turkey invaded Cyprus[26][a] on 20 July 1974 in an operation that progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a Greek junta-sponsored Cypriot coup d'état five days earlier, it led to the Turkish capture and occupation of the northern part of the island.[34]
The coup was ordered by the military junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard[35][36] in conjunction with EOKA B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed Nikos Sampson.[37][38] The aim of the coup was the union (enosis) of Cyprus with Greece,[39][40][41] and the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus to be declared.[42][43]
Turkish forces landed in Cyprus on 20 July and captured 3% of the island before a ceasefire was declared. The Greek military junta collapsed and was replaced by a civilian government. Following the breakdown of peace talks, Turkish forces enlarged their original beachhead in August 1974 resulting in the capture of approximately 36% of the island. The ceasefire line from August 1974 became the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus and is commonly referred to as the Green Line.
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So don't kerbau that invasion as unprovoked, laying all blame on TUrks
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DeleteIn the early 1950s, a Greek nationalist group was formed called the Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA, or "National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters").[56] Their objective was to break free from the British first, and then to integrate the island with Greece. EOKA wished to remove all obstacles from their path to independence, or union with Greece.
The first secret talks for EOKA, as a nationalist organisation established to integrate the island with Greece, were started under the chairmanship of Archbishop Makarios III in Athens on 2 July 1952. In the aftermath of these meetings a "Council of Revolution" was established on 7 March 1953. In early 1954 secret weaponry shipments to Cyprus started with the knowledge of the Greek government. Lt. Georgios Grivas "Digenis", formerly an officer in the Greek army, covertly disembarked on the island on 9 November 1954 and EOKA's campaign against the British forces began to grow.[57]
The first Turk to be killed by EOKA on 21 June 1955 was a policeman. EOKA also killed Greek Cypriot leftist members of the KKK (Cyprus Communist Party).[58] After the September 1955 Istanbul Pogrom, EOKA started its activity against Turkish Cypriots.[59]
A year later EOKA revived its attempts to achieve the union of Cyprus with Greece. Turkish Cypriots were recruited into the police by the British forces to fight against Greek Cypriots, but EOKA initially did not want to open up a second front against Turkish Cypriots. However, in January 1957, EOKA forces began targeting and killing Turkish Cypriot police deliberately to provoke Turkish Cypriot riots in Nicosia, which diverted the British army's attention away from their positions in the mountains. In the riots, at least one Greek Cypriot was killed, which was presented by the Greek Cypriot leadership as an act of Turkish aggression.[60]
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