Palestinian Fahd Abou Haikal carries the body of his seven-month-old son Fahd Abu Haikal, who was killed by Israeli forces by "mistake" last week. Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,080 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, according to an AFP tally based on figures from the Palestinian health ministry.
Amnesty International was expected to hold a press briefing on Wednesday morning in Johannesburg to launch a “major new report” titled “Erasing anything Palestinian: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities”.
The global human rights organisation said in a media advisory that the report exposes the scale of Israel’s “campaign of ethnic cleansing” and unlawful annexation in the occupied West Bank.
“The report shows how Israeli authorities have deliberately accelerated formal annexation of the West Bank through a state-driven ethnic cleansing campaign targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the West Bank, while committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer,” the organisation said in the statement.
It said the report is based on “extensive field research” and “verified evidence”, and its findings show that:
