US EditionWest Bank seeing largest displacement since 1967: UN
WEST BANK, JUL 15 – More than 30,000 Palestinians remain displaced due to Israeli military operations and settler violence, with settler attacks rising 13% in early 2025, UN officials reported.
- On Tuesday, the United Nations warned that mass displacement in the West Bank has reached levels not seen since 1967, highlighting its historic significance.
- Rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan said 2,907 Palestinians were displaced by demolitions since October 2023, amid escalating violence in the West Bank.
- Rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan reported these displacement figures, stating about 30,000 Palestinians remain forcibly displaced in the West Bank.
- The UN rights office warned that mass displacement could amount to ethnic cleansing, while Thameen Al-Kheetan stressed that 'permanently displacing the civilian population within occupied territory amounts to unlawful transfer.'
- Over the first six months of 2025, settlers carried out over 2,000 attacks across the West Bank, often in coordination with the Israeli military, as UN rights office warned of escalating settler violence.
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The spokesman for the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Juliette Touma, called the Israeli military aggression against Palestinians in the north of the West Bank “ethnic cleansing” Tuesday. In connection with the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank, the UN official said that the situation has affected numerous refugee camps in the region. The military operation “has bee…
According to the UN, about 30,000 Palestinians have already been displaced in the West Bank occupied by Israel this year.
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