Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

Source: Asia Pacific Report

What is happening right now is [the] erasure of humans, trees and stones, and anything that is Palestinian, by settlers under the support of the military.
— Muntasir al-Maliki, a resident of Kufr Malik

Palestinian Bedouins lived for generations in the occupied West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta (Zanuta), sustaining themselves through herding, farming and dairy production.
The village was designated as part of Area C under the 1995 Oslo II Accords, placing it under full Israeli military and administrative control.
Today, Zanuta is being eaten away by Israeli outposts and settlements and destroyed by state-sponsored violence and terror.

Just 1km from Zanuta, Israeli settlers established an illegal outpost known as Meitarim Farm in 2021.
The settlers soon began a sustained campaign of violent attacks and threats against Zanuta’s residents.
They set fire to the villagers’ tents and classrooms, broke into their homes, beat them with rifles, threw stones at them, smashed their solar panels and windows, emptied their water tanks and pumped sewage onto their farmland.

Rubble on a rural area — Ruins in Zanuta following the village’s destruction by settlers. Meitarim Farm is pictured in the background, on the overlooking hill. Image: Amnesty International

Original source: https://analysis1.mil-osi.com/2026/06/12/israels-rampant-ethnic-cleansing-of-west-bank-palestinian-communities/