One day after Amnesty International accused Israel of a state-led ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank, Israel’s cabinet was set to approve funding for 61 new settlements across the territory at a projected cost exceeding $350 million, Axios reported June 11, citing a draft copy of the proposal.

The Amnesty report, titled “Erasing Anything Palestinian” and released June 10, spans 149 pages and documents the forcible displacement of Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C, which makes up more than 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli military and civilian control per the 1995 Oslo II Accords.

Entire Palestinian communities across Area C of the occupied West Bank are being erased from lands they have lived on for generations by Israel’s accelerating policy of ethnic cleansing and annexation.

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Amnesty focused its field research on 27 Bedouin and herding communities that were forcibly displaced or placed at imminent risk between 2023 and 2025. More broadly, the report cited UN data showing that at least 117 communities faced full or partial displacement between January 2023 and April 2026, leaving at least 5,910 people forcibly displaced.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as “false and baseless.” The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) separately rejected the ethnic cleansing charge.

“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,” Amnesty Secretary General Agnès Callamard said. “What we are witnessing is deliberate, state-led annexation, in complete violation of international law.”

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has recorded massive infrastructure losses across the territory. Their data tracks more than 7,280 instances of individual Palestinian displacement directly caused by the Israeli-ordered demolition of homes and structures since January 2023, noting that many residents have been displaced multiple times.

Anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now said 212 of at least 363 existing outposts in the West Bank were established after October 2023. Dror Etkes of the settlement watchdog Kerem Navot said settlers have taken approximately 12.5% of West Bank territory since then, land that Palestinians can no longer access or cross safely.

If approved, the cabinet plan to fund 61 new settlements would represent “one of the most significant settlement expansion moves in decades,” Axios reported.