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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.

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.

The leading human rights group’s new report estimates that Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has “fully or partially displaced 107 communities,” comprised of nearly 6,000 Palestinians, since January 2023. The escalating displacement in the West Bank comes amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip.

“The 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,” Sarah Sanbar, acting Israel and Palestine........

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