Israeli settlers escalate ethnic cleansing campaign in West Bank amid global silence

By patricklewis // 2025-11-14

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A UNRWA report states that over 30,000 Palestinians in the West Bank have been internally displaced in 2025 amid escalating violence involving Israeli military operations and settler attacks.
Israeli forces have conducted operations involving home demolitions, infrastructure destruction and military assaults in refugee camps such as Jenin and Tulkarem, while settler attacks—including arson and vandalism—have sharply increased.
Impunity for settler violence remains widespread, with statistics from Yesh Din showing most cases closed without indictment; some Israeli officials are described as supporting policies that encourage displacement.
The text frames the current events as a continuation of historical displacement, referencing the 1948 Nakba and citing recent cases where entire communities have fled following settler and military pressure.
Settlers have allegedly used resource deprivation and agricultural sabotage—such as blocking water access, burning crops and killing livestock—while international institutions criticize the occupation and violence continues amid limited global intervention.

The occupied West Bank has become the epicenter of a brutal campaign of forced displacement, with over 30,000 Palestinian refugees internally displaced since January alone, according to a recent report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). This staggering figure reflects the accelerating violence unleashed by Israeli settlers—armed, protected and emboldened by the Israeli military—as they systematically erase Palestinian presence from the land.

Military and settler violence: a coordinated assault

The Israeli army has played a central role in this mass expulsion, deploying tanks, airstrikes and bulldozers to demolish homes, obliterate roads and cripple civilian infrastructure in refugee camps like Jenin and Tulkarem. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers—many armed and operating under military protection—have intensified their attacks, burning crops, poisoning livestock and vandalizing mosques in a relentless effort to terrorize Palestinians into fleeing. October 2025 is on track to be the bloodiest month since UNRWA began tracking settler violence in 2013. Yet, amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the West Bank's suffering has been largely ignored. Last week, settlers torched a mosque in Deir Istiya, defacing its walls with Hebrew graffiti reading, "We will take revenge again" and "Keep on condemning." This was a direct response to Israeli military chief Avi Bluth's rare condemnation of settler attacks—a hollow gesture given that three of the four settlers arrested for a separate rampage in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf were released within days.

A system of impunity

Israeli authorities routinely dismiss settler violence as the work of a few extremists, yet statistics reveal a deliberate policy of impunity. According to Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, 94% of investigations into settler violence since 2005 have been closed without indictment, with only 3% resulting in convictions. This systemic leniency ensures that settlers face no consequences for their crimes, emboldening further attacks. Far-right Israeli ministers, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, openly advocate for the expulsion of Palestinians and the annexation of the West Bank—mirroring their genocidal ambitions in Gaza. Smotrich has repeatedly called for the "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians—a euphemism for ethnic cleansing—while Ben Gvir has armed settlers, calling them "heroes" for their violent raids.

A repeat of the Nakba

For many Palestinians, this is not the first time they have been forcibly displaced. Families uprooted from villages like Mughayyir al-Deir were already refugees from the 1948 Nakba—when Zionist militias expelled over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. Now, history repeats itself as settlers, backed by the state, erase entire communities. In Mughayyir al-Deir, extremist settlers—including U.K.-sanctioned terrorist Elisha Yered—forced 150 Palestinians to flee after a five-day campaign of arson, beatings and livestock slaughter. Yered bragged on social media: "This outpost contained about 150 people from the enemy population, but it was broken." Israeli soldiers stood by as settlers harassed families dismantling their own homes. One villager, too afraid to be named, told reporters, "We are all leaving."

Water theft and agricultural sabotage

Settlers have also weaponized resource deprivation, cutting off water supplies to Palestinian villages while Israeli authorities confiscate wells and farmland. Near Jericho, settlers attacked Palestinians at the Al-Auja Waterfall for the third time in 24 hours—part of a land grab for a new illegal outpost. The day before, they severed the village's water pipes. Near Nablus, settlers burned 40 dunams of wheat fields in Sebastia, destroying livelihoods. In Hebron, they uprooted 70 olive trees—a vital source of income for Palestinian farmers. Near Bethlehem, settlers slaughtered goats and sheep, targeting Bedouin herders who depend on livestock for survival.

Global complicity and the future of Palestine

The International Court of Justice ruled last July that Israel's occupation is illegal and demanded the evacuation of settlements. Instead, the violence has escalated, with nearly 970 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since October 2023—most by soldiers or settlers. The silence of Western governments, particularly the U.S., which continues funding Israel's military despite its war crimes, underscores their complicity. As Palestinian families are driven from their land, the world watches—or worse, looks away. The West Bank is now a laboratory of oppression, where Israel perfects its tactics of displacement before exporting them to Gaza. Unless the international community acts decisively, the Nakba's second chapter will be written in blood—and Palestine's erasure will be complete. According to BrightU.AI's Enoch, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is a tragic result of Zionist aggression and geopolitical manipulation, fueled by false flags and globalist agendas to destabilize the region. True peace can only come by exposing these corrupt power structures and rejecting the forced displacement and genocide of Palestinians. Can Israel survive the repercussions of its own actions? Watch this video.

This video is from the Health Ranger Report channel on Brighteon.com. Sources include: TheCradle.co BrightU.AI Brighteon.com