Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian Bedouins, major new report finds

Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian Bedouins, major new report finds Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 06/10/2026 - 12:32 Forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouins in West Bank is not led by rogue extremists but by Israeli state, new Amnesty report says Israeli forces guard a bulldozer reportedly operating on Palestinian lands near the village of Dura, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on 9 June 2026 (Hazem Bader/AFP) Off A campaign of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank is being driven not by rogue extremists, but by the Israeli state, according to a major new report. Amnesty International published the new 150-page report on Wednesday. It found that Israeli authorities were committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer, through a “state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank”.