The international community’s tacit or explicit support for Israeli crimes, including genocide and apartheid, or their failure to act resolutely to stop them has emboldened the Israeli authorities to escalate a brutal campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians and expand its control over land in the West Bank, said Amnesty International. In a new report, the organization details how Israeli authorities are accelerating annexation through a state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank, while committing […]
  • Significant escalation in speed and scale of annexation measures under Israel’s current government;
  • Ethnic cleansing campaign is state-led, and state-sponsored, not driven by rogue settlers or so-called extremist ministers;
  • Exponential rise in state-backed settler violence terrorizing and expelling thousands of Palestinians to annex land;
  • Communities still at critical risk of displacement, those uprooted must be protected;
  • States must halt trade, cooperation and investment relations enabling unlawful occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and impose sanctions on implicated officials.
  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Genocide by a country funded by the US.
    Its more than just Israel that needs sanctions.
    Too much power for too long