West Bank ethnic cleansing, settler attacks Israel’s state policy: Amnesty

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Jun 10, 2026 · 715 words · By Al Jazeera Staff

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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.

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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…

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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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Claim 1: “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”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim about Smotrich and Strock distributing weapons at Meitarim Farm.

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Claim 2: “Most of the affected villages were “designated as part of Area C under the 1995 Oslo II Accords”

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Wikipedia and other reference sources confirm that Area C was established under the 1995 Oslo II Accords and is the area under full Israeli control where most settlements and displaced Bedouin communities are located.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, commonly known as Oslo II or Oslo 2, was a key and complex agreement in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Because it was signed in Taba,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_II_Accord

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Oslo II Accord divided the Israeli-occupied West Bank into three administrative divisions: the Palestinian enclaves as "Areas A and B" and the remainder, including Israeli settlements, as "Area C"…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_areas_in_the_Oslo_II…

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Claim 3: “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”

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Claim 4: “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)”

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The evidence mentions OCHA recording new displacement and an ethnic cleansing campaign, but the specific number '117 villages' is not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided text, though it is attributed to OCHA.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up Palestine. A landlocked territory located on the western bank of the Jordan River near the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 10, 2026 ... An ethnic cleansing campaign targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in the West Bank is being carried out by Israel in a ...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2026/06/israel-we…

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Claim 5: “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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While Al Jazeera mentions the government approved record levels of settlement expansion, other provided sources (like the Middle East Institute or Wikipedia) discuss settlements generally or state that official annexation of the West Bank has not occurred, making the 'record levels' and 'annexation' claim specifically tied to the reporting context of the Amnesty report without independent corroboration of the 'record' status in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_barrier

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Claim 6: “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”

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The provided evidence for claim 7 consists of general Wikipedia entries about Israel and its history, with no mention of specific Supreme Court orders from July 2024 or February 2025 regarding Meitarim Farm or resident returns.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel's 1948 independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, repelling neighboring armies but resulting in significant regional displacement. Despite peace treaties with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל), is a country in southwestern Asia on the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital city is Jerusalem…
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

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Claim 7: “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”

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Web results confirm Amnesty International released a report regarding the forced displacement of thousands of Palestinians, but the specific figure of '5,910 people' and the date range 'January 2023 to December 2025' (which includes a future date relative to current training but is presented as a report finding) is not corroborated by a second independent source.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amnesty International India was a country unit of the Amnesty International network, and was part of a global movement promoting and defending human rights and dignity. In September 2020, Amnesty halt…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International_India

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Criticism of Amnesty International includes claims of selection bias, as well as ideology and foreign policy biases. Various governments criticised by Amnesty International have in turn criticised th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati…

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Claim 8: “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”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim regarding the approval of 34 settlements in a single April cabinet session.

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Claim 9: “Area C comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank”

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Multiple independent sources, including Al Jazeera and various web search results, confirm that Area C comprises approximately 60% of the West Bank.

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web search NEUTRAL — 2. Did Friedman go rogue? It’s easy to think that Friedman was expressing his own personal pro-settler views rather than channeling American official policy.Area C makes up about 60% of the West Bank,…
https://momentmag.com/five-things-to-know-this-week-friedman…

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web search NEUTRAL — Area C makes up 60 % of the West Bank and is under full Israeli control.Area B – around 22% of the West Bank – is under Palestinian civil administration with Israel retaining security control. These a…
https://sometravelnotes.wordpress.com/tag/area-c/

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web search NEUTRAL — Area C makes up about 60% of the land. It’s under full Israeli military and civil control.The reality of the West Bank is far more complex than a late-night segment can ever capture. But as a starting…
https://filtron.co/john-oliver-west-bank-episode-why-that-30…

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Claim 10: “Israeli settlers established an illegal outpost known as Meitarim Farm in 2021”

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Wikipedia and Peace Now both confirm that the Meitarim Farm (or Havata Meitarim) outpost was established by Yinon Levi in 2021.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli settlers destroyed the village school and most houses, and the IDF has refused to give its expelled residents permission to rebuild.In 2021, Israeli settler Yinon Levi set up the nearby outpos…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet_Zanuta

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web search NEUTRAL — In 2021, the “Meitarim Industrial Zone Directorate within the Har Hevron Development Company” signed a contract with the settler Yinon Levy for the establishment of an agricultural farm.
https://peacenow.org.il/en/har-hevron-municipality-support-i…

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web search NEUTRAL — Four illegal outposts: Meitarim Farm (established by Yinon Levi, who is already under U.S. sanctions)Manne’s Farm, established by Issachar Manne, who came under sanctions this week, and located in the…
https://fmep.org/blog/resourcetag/meitarim-farm/

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Claim 11: “The displacement of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank forms part of a deliberate Israeli government strategy of ethnic cleansing”

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Multiple independent sources (Al Jazeera, The Tablet, and other web results) explicitly state that Amnesty International released a report accusing the Israeli government of a deliberate strategy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict

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Claim 12: “Over that period, Israeli forces in the West Bank have detained at least 23,000 Palestinians”

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