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Illustrative: An Israeli settler leads his flock of sheep past a home in the West Bank village of Abu Falah on July 29, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)
August 12, 2026, 4:39 pm
In Qusra and beyond, settlers are chasing Palestinians out and taking over their homes
While previous displacements targeted relatively mobile Bedouin communities, extremists have begun forcing occupants out of permanent structures on village outskirts, and then moving in themselves
By Nurit Yohanan
Bedouin families near Jericho in the West Bank dismantle their homes as they prepare to leave the area due to rising attacks by Israeli settlers, on January 16, 2026. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
June 10, 2026, 3:14 pm
Amnesty accuses Israel of ‘state-led’ ethnic cleansing in West Bank; IDF rejects charge
Rights group claims routine violence against Bedouin and Palestinian herding communities isn’t perpetrated by ‘bad apples,’ but is ‘a core component of a state-sanctioned campaign’
By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and AFP
Graffiti is seen through the window of a burnt out car following a settler attack on the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank, March 23, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
March 31, 2026, 1:41 pm
After uprooting Palestinian hamlets, extremist settlers set sights on purge of entire West Bank
As settler violence escalates, apparently under cover of Iran war, some behind the attacks appear to be pursuing a deliberate campaign aimed at ethnically cleansing the whole territory
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians move with their belongings as they flee the northern cities of Jabalia and Beit Lahia Gaza Strip towards Gaza City amid continuous Israeli strikes in the besieged Palestinian enclave on May 17, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
May 18, 2025, 9:59 am
US embassy in Libya denies report of plans to relocate Gazans to country
Mission rejects NBC report US is in ‘serious’ talks to move up to 1 million Palestinians to war-torn North African country
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Left to right: Joaquin Phoenix arrives for the 4th Annual Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, October 19, 2024. (Valerie Macon / AFP); Tony Kushner attends the "Gypsy" Broadway opening night at Majestic Theatre on December 19, 2024 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP); Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum attends a protest to advocate for Israeli democracy and against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the UN General Assembly at United Nations on September 22, 2023, New York City. (ROB KIM / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
February 13, 2025, 9:45 pm
‘NO to ethnic cleansing’: Hundreds of US rabbis, Jewish celebs slam Trump’s Gaza plan
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, screenwriter Tony Kushner, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum among prominent Jews who signed full-page NYT ad assailing US president’s call to relocate Gazans
By Ben Sales
Former defense minister Yoav Gallant (left) attends a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90); Moshe Ya'alon attends a protest near the Knesset, October 28, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
December 1, 2024, 2:57 pm
Gallant pans ex-defense chief Ya’alon, who doubles down on Gaza ‘ethnic cleansing’ charge
Recently fired defense minister accuses predecessor of helping Israel’s enemies; latter doubles down, says war crimes being committed, warns IDF soldiers could be vulnerable to ICC
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Displaced Palestinians from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salaheddine road into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip following Israeli army evacuation orders on November 12, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
November 14, 2024, 12:06 pm
Israel rejects HRW accusations of ‘forcible transfer,’ ‘ethnic cleansing’ in north Gaza
Group argues Israel can’t displace people purely based on ‘presence of armed groups’; Foreign Ministry says Israel working solely to dismantle Hamas terror capabilities
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Likud MK Danny Danon is interviewed by Sky News presenter Belle Donati, January 26, 2024 (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 27, 2024, 10:10 pm
Sky News apologizes after anchor compares idea of relocating Gazans to Holocaust
In on-air apology, UK network recognizes ‘complete inappropriateness’ of comparing Likud MK Danon’s idea of allowing Palestinians to leave amid war to extermination of Jews in WWII
By ToI Staff
Footage of Israeli soldiers around the time of the 1948 War of Independence from the documentary film 'Tantura.' (Screenshot)
January 27, 2022, 4:46 am
Israeli film ‘Tantura’ prompts calls to excavate possible Palestinian mass grave
A documentary airs disputed testimonies of a 1948 massacre by former IDF soldiers now in their 90s, calling attention to a nondescript parking lot that may hold victims’ remains
By Andrew Lapin
Rohingya refugees wait after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang, October 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)
April 13, 2019, 2:56 am
Jewish groups praise bill to sanction Burma for persecution of Rohingya Muslims
19 US organizations lobby in support of bill; American rabbis previously spoke to congressional representatives pushing for action against Burmese government
By Josefin Dolsten
Left: the scene of the 1996 bus bombing in downtown Jerusalem; right: Palestinians detained in Jenin, 2002, during the Second Intifada. (Courtesy Ian Black)
February 18, 2018, 2:23 am
Journalist examines a century of dueling Israeli-Palestinian narratives
In ‘Enemies and Neighbors,’ former the Guardian writer Ian Black gives voice to everyday people on both sides of the ongoing conflict
By JP O’ Malley
In this January 28, 2018 photo, Rohingya Muslim refugees Nooranksih, 9, left, and her mother Rohima Khatu, 45, originally from the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, eat inside their makeshift shelter at Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. (AP/Manish Swarup)
February 1, 2018, 10:46 am
Report confirms Myanmar massacre of Rohingya and 5 mass graves
Government denies such killings ever happened, acknowledging only one communal grave burial site containing 10 ‘terrorists’
By Foster Klug
Blaze Bernstein, center, with his parents, Jeanne Pepper and Gideon Bernstein. (Facebook via JTA)
January 29, 2018, 3:04 pm
Inside ‘Atomwaffen,’ where Blaze Bernstein’s alleged killer trained for race war
Before he was charged with the murder of his former classmate, Samuel Woodward participated in ‘doomsday camp’ with one of America’s ‘most extreme’ hate groups
By Matt Lebovic
Rohingya refugees carry supplies through the Jalpatoli refugee camp in the 'no mans land' between Myanmar and Bangladesh in Gumdhum district on September 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Dominique Faget)
November 30, 2017, 5:06 pm
Israel says it stopped selling weapons to Myanmar months ago
In interview, Myanmar envoy denies ethnic cleansing, says Rohingya minority left of their own volition and torched their own villages
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Bangladeshi men help Rohingya Muslim refugees to disembark from a boat on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf on September 30, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)
November 23, 2017, 12:03 pm
Myanmar, Bangladesh leaders meet over Rohingya repatriation
More than 620,000 members of oppressed Muslim minority have poured into neighboring country since August amid violence
By AFP
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