The rights group released a 149-page report on June 10 covering measures it said were implemented from December 29, 2022, through the end of 2025. Amnesty said the report focused on Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank and alleged that settler violence, demolitions, movement restrictions and planning policies worked together to push communities from their land.
AP reported from Jerusalem that Amnesty's report accused Israel's government of "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the West Bank with the intention of annexing the territory. Ekta is attributing that legal and political characterisation to Amnesty; it is not stated here as an independent legal finding.
AP said the Amnesty report argues that displacement resulted from concerted state policy, not only from violent settlers acting alone. The same AP report said the international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlements illegal, while Israel views the West Bank as disputed territory and says final status should be decided through negotiations.
Amnesty's research page says Israeli citizens, including settlers, had received more than 240,000 firearm licences by January 2026 and that thousands of additional weapons were distributed to newly formed regional defence battalions largely staffed by settlers drafted into military reserves. Amnesty said armed settlers were present in most incidents it documented.
UN and humanitarian data give the claim wider context. AP reported that UN data show more than 100 West Bank villages were fully or partly emptied between January 2023 and April 2026, and that the UN tracked more than 7,280 individual Palestinian displacements because of demolitions by Israeli forces. OCHA's demolition data page says its figures track demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures and resulting displacement across the West Bank, and that the threat of destruction can contribute to a coercive environment pressuring people to leave.