Israel has forcibly displaced more than 36,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in one year, the United Nations says, warning that illegal Israeli settlement expansion and a push to annex the territory are accelerating.
Tuesday’s report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights documented 1,732 incidents of Israeli settler violence causing casualties or property damage from November 2024 to the end of October last year.
That amounts to a 24-percent increase from the 1,400 incidents reported over the same period a year earlier.
The settler attacks, combined with Israeli forced displacement orders, home demolitions, and military violence, have pushed tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee their homes across the West Bank, the UN rights chief also said.
That includes about 32,000 Palestinians who were forced out of the Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Far’a refugee camps in the north of the territory during an Israeli army operation.
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Israel Carrying Out ‘Mass Expulsion of Palestinians’ in West Bank, UN Warns
03/17/2026
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