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.
In a report released on Wednesday, the rights group said rural Palestinian communities were facing a sharp increase in settler violence, land grabs and forced displacement, particularly in Area C of the West Bank, which makes up around 60 percent of the territory and remains under Israeli control under the Oslo agreements of the 1990s.
