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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Xander Elliards

Israeli state 'is leading ethnic cleansing in Palestine', report finds

Israeli forces demolish a two-story Palestinian house in the village of Ed-Deirat, part of the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank (Image: Archive)

AN ethnic cleansing campaign underway in Palestine is not driven by rogue extremists but is led and sponsored by the Israeli state, a major new report has said.

The 150-page Amnesty International report, published on Wednesday, argues that Israeli authorities are “committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer”, specifically through a “state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank [which includes about 60% of the total area]”.

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