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Intensifying violence by government-backed Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank is fueling the mass displacement and erasure of entire Palestinian communities, according to a report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

HRW pointed with alarm to United Nations data showing that the average number of settler attacks per day in the West Bank has risen to the highest level on record as the far-right Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, continues to expand settlements in open defiance of international law.<\/p>\n

The leading human rights group\u2019s new report estimates that Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has \u201cfully or partially displaced 107 communities,\u201d comprised of nearly 6,000 Palestinians, since January 2023. The escalating displacement in the West Bank comes amid Israel\u2019s ongoing genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Israeli government and the settlers share the same goal of maximum land and minimum Palestinians, with the authorities not only failing to stop settler violence, but actively enabling it,\u201d Sarah Sanbar, acting Israel and Palestine researcher at HRW, said in a statement. \u201cSettlers shoot, attack, and expel Palestinians from their land, and the state provides the weapons, the legal cover, and the budget to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

HRW\u2019s report was released days after the Israeli government published a new tender for the construction of more than 1,200 housing units in the West Bank. The anti-occupation group Peace Now noted that the bidding period for companies to build the units closes a week before Israel\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding in E1 will ruin the possibility of reaching an end to the conflict and a peace arrangement based on two states,\u201d said Peace Now. \u201cThe government is trying to sign contracts with contractors before the elections so that it will be much harder for the next government to cancel the construction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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HRW warned that companies seeking a role in constructing the new housing units are \u201cbidding on complicity in a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

For its report on settler violence, HRW interviewed 20 witnesses and reviewed video footage of attacks, which have included physical assaults, sexual violence, property destruction, theft, and killings \u2014 often carried out alongside Israeli soldiers. HRW noted that Israel\u2019s National Security Ministry has \u201cformed civilian \u2018rapid response squads\u2019 in settlements\u201d and given them \u201cspecial policing powers, uniforms, and weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have known war in this region for all my life, but never like this,\u201d said Um Muhammad Muammar, a 72-year-old resident of Qaryut whose two sons were killed by Israeli settlers. \u201cMy sons\u2019 children are now fatherless; their wives are now widows. What more can we say?\u201d<\/p>\n

With the support of Israel\u2019s government, settlers have established 65 new outposts in the West Bank this year alone. \u201cIsraeli organizations Kerem Navot and PeaceNow in July that these outposts currently effectively control more than 1 million dunams (100,000 hectares) of land \u2014 approximately 18% of the West Bank \u2014 four times what they controlled before the current government took office,\u201d HRW observed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impunity Israeli authorities accord settlers stems directly from the free pass Israel\u2019s allies and donors have granted it,\u201d said Sanbar. \u201cAccountability starts with the settlers committing crimes but doesn\u2019t end there. Israel and the governments that give it a blank check share responsibility and should be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n

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