Amnesty Report on West Bank

Amnesty Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said the attacks were “not the work of a few ‘bad apples’,” adding that “Settler violence is a core component of a state-sanctioned campaign of ethnic cleansing, central to maintaining Israel’s system of apartheid,” and warned that “It must clearly signal that the era of tacit acquiescence to Israel’s ethnic cleansing and annexation is over.”

Amnesty, citing UN OCHA data, reported that on average there were “four settler attacks… per day” during the roughly two years following Oct. 7, 2023—and that attacks “have only grown more frequent this year.”

Amnesty reported additional displacement figures beyond those in the summary: about “45 communities” were “totally depopulated,” and the group said roughly “17% of the Palestinian population” in Area C’s Bedouin and herding communities was forced to leave. It also said the Israeli government advanced plans for “more than 50,000 settler housing units” (2023–2025) and authorized “102 new settlements” by April 2026—its “largest number ever approved.”

Amnesty’s report (titled “Erasing anything Palestinian: (the Zionist entity)’s ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities”) said Netanyahu’s government is “catering to the settler movement’s religious nationalist agenda,” accelerating “settlement expansion and land grabs,” increasing “financial and logistical support to settlements,” and “arming settlers,” thereby enabling a “brutal state-sanctioned campaign of settler violence.”