Amnesty International documents a coordinated system of genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank (2023โ2025), carried out through forced displacement, settler violence, and colonial expansion, with the objective of erasing Palestinians.
๐ด Ultimate Goal: Erasing Palestinians
โThis report lays bare the scale and severity of the ethnic cleansing campaign targeting these communities, carried out in a context of apartheid and unlawful occupation and against the backdrop of an ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.โ
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๐ด Forced Displacement & Settler Terror
๐ 117 Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities fully or partially displaced.
โ ๐ Palestinians killed by settlers rose to an annual average of 8.
๐ 94% of settler-violence investigations ended without indictment.
๐ด Colonial Expansion
๐ โIsraelโ advanced plans for 50,785 settlement housing units.
๐ 27,941 settlement units approved in 2025 alone โ highest annual figure recorded.
๐ 25,959 dunums of Area C declared โstate land.โ
๐ด Suffocating Palestinian Life
๐ 240 new roads connecting outposts and settlements.
๐ Separating Palestinian communities and their restricting access to water and resources.
๐ No Palestinian housing plans approved in Area C in 2023 and 2024.
๐ด Not Isolated Crimes
โThe ethnic cleansing campaign in Area C is state-sanctioned, state-driven and state-implemented; it seeks to accelerate the Israeli governmentโs annexation agenda and settlement expansion through war crimes and crimes against humanity.โ
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