Violence from Israeli settlers has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to a UN report released Thursday, with officials describing the exodus as unparalleled in recent years.
The report documented about three settler-related incidents each day in the West Bank -- the highest daily average since the UN began documenting the trend in 2006. The violence has completely emptied out five Palestinian communities. Six more have seen half their inhabitants leave, and seven have seen a quarter flee, the report said.
Those who have left their homes say that attacks on their grazing lands and violence from settlement outposts -- many of which are recently established on hilltops ringing rural Palestinian villages -- prompted them to pull up stakes permanently. Over a third of the residents have reported changing their livelihoods, some giving up shepherding altogether.
Settlement expansion has been promoted by successive Israeli governments over nearly six decades, but Netanyahu's far-right government has made it a top priority. Settler firebrand and powerful Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich now oversees settlement policy and has vowed to step up construction and legalize outposts built without authorization.
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