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More than 36,000 Palestinians successful the West Bank were forcibly displaced implicit a twelvemonth by Israeli colony enlargement and associated violence, the U.N. human rights bureau said connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026).
The United Nations said successful a study covering 12 months to October 31, 2025, that Israel had accelerated the annexation of ample parts of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The study cites monitoring and accusation gathering by the U.N.’s determination office, authorities sources and NGOs arsenic its sources.
Israel’s imperishable mission in Geneva, wherever the U.N. bureau is based, said it was moving connected a effect to the report.
The ngo had dismissed erstwhile reports connected Israeli actions and said past period that the U.N. quality rights bureau had mislaid its credibility.
The West Bank, location to 2.7 cardinal Palestinians, has agelong been cardinal to plans for a future Palestinian authorities existing alongside Israel, but successive Israeli governments person expanded settlements rapidly, fragmenting the land. More than fractional a cardinal Israeli settlers unrecorded successful the West Bank and Israel disputes the presumption that its settlements are unlawful, citing biblical and humanities ties to the land.
The U.N. study said unit by Israeli settlers against Palestinians successful the West Bank has besides accrued sharply since the opening of the warfare successful Gaza successful October 2023.
Settler attacks roseate to 1,732 incidents, from 1,400 successful the erstwhile reporting period, the study said. Settler unit continued successful “a coordinated, strategical and mostly unchallenged manner,” and Israeli authorities often enabled oregon participated in the attacks, it added.
The study said the standard and signifier of displacement, which coincides with extended displacement successful Gaza, suggested a concerted argumentation of wide forcible transfer. This could magnitude to “ethnic cleansing”, it said, echoing concerns successful a study is issued past month.
