Israeli author describes his "country's birth" as The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
From: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/5/15/ethnic-cleansing-by-zionists-in-palestine
Multiple reports and experts have concluded that Israel's treatment of Palestinians constitutes the crime of apartheid. In March 2022, Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, stated that Israel's 55-year occupation satisfies the legal definition of apartheid, describing it as an "institutionalized regime of systematic racial oppression and discrimination."
Recent Escalation and Findings: A comprehensive report released by the UN Human Rights Office on January 7, 2026, warns that systemic discrimination against Palestinians has "drastically deteriorated" since late 2022 and intensified following October 7, 2023. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk declared there are "reasonable grounds to believe" that separation and segregation measures are intended to be permanent to maintain domination, marking the first time a UN rights chief has explicitly applied the term "apartheid" to the situation in the [Palestinian] West Bank.
Key Conclusions from UN Bodies:
Dual Legal Systems: Reports highlight a discriminatory dual system privileging Israeli settlers over Palestinians in the same geographic areas regarding movement, resources, and legal rights.
International Law Violations: The findings assert that these practices violate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the Rome Statute, which prohibits apartheid as a crime against humanity.
Historical Context: These recent conclusions echo a 2017 ESCWA report and align with findings from major human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Israeli Response: Israel has consistently rejected these accusations, denying the term "occupation" for the West Bank and asserting that its Arab citizens enjoy full civil rights.
From: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/5/15/ethnic-cleansing-by-zionists-in-palestine
The world is running out of terminology to describe the 100-year old and continuing rape of Palestine by Western colonial Zionist settlers who say their god, Yahweh, gave their ancestors the land some 3,000 years ago, when said "Hebrew" ancestors carried out the first recorded genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Canaan. Read about it: It's in a goat-skin garbage parchment known as the torah-old testament. Yahweh told the invading Hebrew Bedouins that he prefers them over all other peoples on earth and that, therefore, he is giving them another people's land and ordered them to kill every man, woman, child and animal of that land, Palestine.
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Per AI search:Multiple reports and experts have concluded that Israel's treatment of Palestinians constitutes the crime of apartheid. In March 2022, Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, stated that Israel's 55-year occupation satisfies the legal definition of apartheid, describing it as an "institutionalized regime of systematic racial oppression and discrimination."
Recent Escalation and Findings: A comprehensive report released by the UN Human Rights Office on January 7, 2026, warns that systemic discrimination against Palestinians has "drastically deteriorated" since late 2022 and intensified following October 7, 2023. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk declared there are "reasonable grounds to believe" that separation and segregation measures are intended to be permanent to maintain domination, marking the first time a UN rights chief has explicitly applied the term "apartheid" to the situation in the [Palestinian] West Bank.
Key Conclusions from UN Bodies:
Dual Legal Systems: Reports highlight a discriminatory dual system privileging Israeli settlers over Palestinians in the same geographic areas regarding movement, resources, and legal rights.
International Law Violations: The findings assert that these practices violate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the Rome Statute, which prohibits apartheid as a crime against humanity.
Historical Context: These recent conclusions echo a 2017 ESCWA report and align with findings from major human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Israeli Response: Israel has consistently rejected these accusations, denying the term "occupation" for the West Bank and asserting that its Arab citizens enjoy full civil rights.
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Amnesty accuses Israel's government of 'ethnic cleansing' of Palestinians from the West Bank
JULIA FRANKEL
Updated Wed, June 10, 2026
FILE -A Bedouin carries a bicycle past houses that, according to local residents, were heavily damaged yesterday during an attack by Israeli settlers in Al-Dyouk Al-Tahta area, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Jericho, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)(AP Photo/Leo Correa)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank with the intention to annex the Palestinian territory.
The accusation came in a new, 149-page report alleging that the forced displacement of West Bank Palestinians resulted from a concerted state policy, and not just the actions of violent settlers.
U.N. data says that over 100 West Bank villages have been fully or partially emptied out between January 2023 and April 2026. At the same time, the United Nations has tracked more than 7,280 instances of individual Palestinian displacement because of demolition of homes and structures by Israeli forces, a figure that includes people who were displaced more than once.
Israel, which has in the past denounced such accusations — including allegations of ethnic cleansing — as longtime unfair bias, did not immediately respond to the report.
"These abuses are not the result of a few 'bad apples.' Settler violence is a core component of a state-sanctioned campaign of ethnic cleansing," said Agnès Callamard, the head of Amnesty. "What we are witnessing is deliberate, state-led annexation, in complete violation of international law unfolding before the eyes of the entire world."
Israeli leaders have condemned particularly grave violence by Jewish settlers but tend to denounce them as exceptions. Key Cabinet ministers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government are pushing for a formal annexation of the territory, and officials have voiced support for Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank.
Amnesty says it has identified dozens of bills in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to extend Israeli civil law and jurisdiction over settlement blocs, as well as over courts that try Palestinians. Recently, the parliament approved a measure making death penalty the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted of nationalistic killings.
Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. The U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hamas group that aimed to stop the war in Gaza also acknowledged Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
Amnesty says the large-scale displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities in the territory is caused by settler violence, advancement of new settlements and the Israeli takeover of large swaths of unregistered land. Rights groups have raised the alarm about this form of displacement before 2023, but it dramatically intensified after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war.
Rights groups say that Bedouin herding communities in remote areas of the West Bank are those most vulnerable to displacement. Unlike Palestinians in cities and towns across the West Bank, the villagers are less able to withstand the pressure from often-armed settlers as they establish new outposts around Palestinian villages.
The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now says that 212 of at least 363 existing outposts in the West Bank were created since 2023. The outposts are built without permission from Israeli authorities, who sometimes dismantle them but other times turn a blind eye or even legalize them retroactively.
The international community overwhelmingly considers the settlements illegal. Israel, meanwhile, views the West Bank as disputed territory and says its final status is subject to negotiations.
Amnesty said its report looked into 27 hamlets and villages in the West Bank where Palestinians were displaced between 2023 and 2025. Researchers interviewed dozens of Palestinians and lawyers, spoke with witnesses of settler violence, watched over 420 videos and analyzed government statements and other reports.
The group also said the international community has failed to act to stop the displacement.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for their independent state, along with the Gaza Strip.
JULIA FRANKEL
Updated Wed, June 10, 2026
FILE -A Bedouin carries a bicycle past houses that, according to local residents, were heavily damaged yesterday during an attack by Israeli settlers in Al-Dyouk Al-Tahta area, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Jericho, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)(AP Photo/Leo Correa)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank with the intention to annex the Palestinian territory.
The accusation came in a new, 149-page report alleging that the forced displacement of West Bank Palestinians resulted from a concerted state policy, and not just the actions of violent settlers.
U.N. data says that over 100 West Bank villages have been fully or partially emptied out between January 2023 and April 2026. At the same time, the United Nations has tracked more than 7,280 instances of individual Palestinian displacement because of demolition of homes and structures by Israeli forces, a figure that includes people who were displaced more than once.
Israel, which has in the past denounced such accusations — including allegations of ethnic cleansing — as longtime unfair bias, did not immediately respond to the report.
"These abuses are not the result of a few 'bad apples.' Settler violence is a core component of a state-sanctioned campaign of ethnic cleansing," said Agnès Callamard, the head of Amnesty. "What we are witnessing is deliberate, state-led annexation, in complete violation of international law unfolding before the eyes of the entire world."
Israeli leaders have condemned particularly grave violence by Jewish settlers but tend to denounce them as exceptions. Key Cabinet ministers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government are pushing for a formal annexation of the territory, and officials have voiced support for Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank.
Amnesty says it has identified dozens of bills in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to extend Israeli civil law and jurisdiction over settlement blocs, as well as over courts that try Palestinians. Recently, the parliament approved a measure making death penalty the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted of nationalistic killings.
Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. The U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hamas group that aimed to stop the war in Gaza also acknowledged Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
Amnesty says the large-scale displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities in the territory is caused by settler violence, advancement of new settlements and the Israeli takeover of large swaths of unregistered land. Rights groups have raised the alarm about this form of displacement before 2023, but it dramatically intensified after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war.
Rights groups say that Bedouin herding communities in remote areas of the West Bank are those most vulnerable to displacement. Unlike Palestinians in cities and towns across the West Bank, the villagers are less able to withstand the pressure from often-armed settlers as they establish new outposts around Palestinian villages.
The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now says that 212 of at least 363 existing outposts in the West Bank were created since 2023. The outposts are built without permission from Israeli authorities, who sometimes dismantle them but other times turn a blind eye or even legalize them retroactively.
The international community overwhelmingly considers the settlements illegal. Israel, meanwhile, views the West Bank as disputed territory and says its final status is subject to negotiations.
Amnesty said its report looked into 27 hamlets and villages in the West Bank where Palestinians were displaced between 2023 and 2025. Researchers interviewed dozens of Palestinians and lawyers, spoke with witnesses of settler violence, watched over 420 videos and analyzed government statements and other reports.
The group also said the international community has failed to act to stop the displacement.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for their independent state, along with the Gaza Strip.
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NBC NEWS
Several U.S. allies issue joint sanctions on Israeli settlers in the occupied [Palestinian] West Bank.
The sanctions by Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Norway, and New Zealand come amid growing over Israel’s policies in the occupied [Palestinian] West Bank.
A Palestinian child stands outside a destroyed car and burnt out home following a reported attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank in March. Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP via Getty Images
NBC News
June 10, 2026, 12:40 PM
PARIS — A coalition of six countries on Tuesday issued new joint sanctions on Israeli settlers and settlements in the West Bank, including a hard-line Israeli cabinet minister already sanctioned by Western countries, escalating pressure on Israel over a wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory.
The top diplomats of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Norway, and New Zealand announced the moves in a joint statement.
“Extremist violent settlers, with the backing of their supporters, continue to attack Palestinians and abuse their human rights,” they said. “For too long, violent settlers have been able to act with near impunity, and settlement expansion and creation of outposts continue with the support and facilitation of the government of Israel.”
Israel’s hard-line government, dominated by settler leaders and supporters, has overseen a surge in settlement construction over the past four years. At the same time, the West Bank has experienced a wave of settler violence against Palestinians, with assailants rarely punished. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in these areas to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.
The sanctions come amid growing criticism across Europe over Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza and policies in the occupied West Bank. However, they are not like the sweeping ones imposed on countries such as Iran or Russia, leaving broader trade, including of weapons, untouched.
In Tuesday’s announcement, each country announced its own set of measures to be taken.
NBC News
June 10, 2026, 12:40 PM
PARIS — A coalition of six countries on Tuesday issued new joint sanctions on Israeli settlers and settlements in the West Bank, including a hard-line Israeli cabinet minister already sanctioned by Western countries, escalating pressure on Israel over a wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory.
The top diplomats of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Norway, and New Zealand announced the moves in a joint statement.
“Extremist violent settlers, with the backing of their supporters, continue to attack Palestinians and abuse their human rights,” they said. “For too long, violent settlers have been able to act with near impunity, and settlement expansion and creation of outposts continue with the support and facilitation of the government of Israel.”
Israel’s hard-line government, dominated by settler leaders and supporters, has overseen a surge in settlement construction over the past four years. At the same time, the West Bank has experienced a wave of settler violence against Palestinians, with assailants rarely punished. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in these areas to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.
The sanctions come amid growing criticism across Europe over Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza and policies in the occupied West Bank. However, they are not like the sweeping ones imposed on countries such as Iran or Russia, leaving broader trade, including of weapons, untouched.
In Tuesday’s announcement, each country announced its own set of measures to be taken.
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, center surrounded by Israeli settlers at the end of the resettlement ceremony of Sa-Nur, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank on Apr. 19.Marco Longari / AFP via Getty Images
France has barred Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country as part of new sanctions targeting “those responsible for the intensification of settlement activity and violence in the West Bank,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said in a social media post.
Smotrich, who heads a far-right religious party and has led an aggressive expansion of Israeli settlements, recently ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that has long been targeted by Israeli authorities. He said the measure was a response to reports that he may be a target of international war crimes prosecutors from the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
The court generally does not publicly reveal arrest warrants or requests for them.
Barrot said Smotrich, who oversees Israeli settlement policy, is “actively promoting” the annexation of the West Bank, the expansion of Israeli settlements there, the re-establishment of settlements in Gaza, and policies aimed at the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority. He said this has had harmful consequences for Palestinians.
“These are policies that the overwhelming majority of the international community cannot accept,” Barrot said, adding that France also has barred four leaders of settler organizations and 21 settlers accused of violence from entering French territory.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the U.K. was imposing sanctions on six entities and on individuals involved in financing settlements or violent acts.
France has barred Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country as part of new sanctions targeting “those responsible for the intensification of settlement activity and violence in the West Bank,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said in a social media post.
Smotrich, who heads a far-right religious party and has led an aggressive expansion of Israeli settlements, recently ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that has long been targeted by Israeli authorities. He said the measure was a response to reports that he may be a target of international war crimes prosecutors from the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
The court generally does not publicly reveal arrest warrants or requests for them.
Barrot said Smotrich, who oversees Israeli settlement policy, is “actively promoting” the annexation of the West Bank, the expansion of Israeli settlements there, the re-establishment of settlements in Gaza, and policies aimed at the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority. He said this has had harmful consequences for Palestinians.
“These are policies that the overwhelming majority of the international community cannot accept,” Barrot said, adding that France also has barred four leaders of settler organizations and 21 settlers accused of violence from entering French territory.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the U.K. was imposing sanctions on six entities and on individuals involved in financing settlements or violent acts.
Palestinian men attempt to extinguish a fire in a field in the Palestinian town of Huwara in occupied Palestine on June 6, after a reported arson attack by Israeli settlers according to local officials. Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP via Getty Images
“We have targeted some of the most notorious individuals, the most significant settler entities, and the extremist figures in the Israeli cabinet who are inciting these acts,” she said to the House of Commons.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were “disgraceful measures” that “only serve to fuel that antisemitism.”
Israel’s Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka told The Associated Press Monday, ahead of the sanctions, that they might be counterproductive in the end.
“Sanctioning government entities or government-connected entities is not helping in any way. On the contrary, it is actually helping those extremists,” he said.
The coordinated plan follows new sanctions from the 27-nation European Union on both Hamas leaders and Israeli settler organizations and leaders.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 from Jordan and sought by the Palestinians for a future state.
“We have targeted some of the most notorious individuals, the most significant settler entities, and the extremist figures in the Israeli cabinet who are inciting these acts,” she said to the House of Commons.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were “disgraceful measures” that “only serve to fuel that antisemitism.”
Israel’s Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka told The Associated Press Monday, ahead of the sanctions, that they might be counterproductive in the end.
“Sanctioning government entities or government-connected entities is not helping in any way. On the contrary, it is actually helping those extremists,” he said.
The coordinated plan follows new sanctions from the 27-nation European Union on both Hamas leaders and Israeli settler organizations and leaders.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 from Jordan and sought by the Palestinians for a future state.
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