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Israel is displacing entire Palestinian communities, while new Israeli outposts are being established at an unprecedented pace. Settler militias are taking control of vast areas, and military operations have displaced tens of thousands from refugee camps in the northern West Bank. These incidents form part of an escalating process of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and the takeover of Palestinian land carried out through a coordinated system involving political leaders, government authorities, the military, the police and settler militias, backed by Israel’s legal and law enforcement systems. This process pushes Palestinians from their land into rapidly shrinking spaces, deliberately cut off from each another, while establishing, expanding and reinforcing Jewish-Israeli control. The methods Israel uses to intimidate and displace Palestinians are varied. Homes and other structures are demolished, while entire communities are forcibly displaced from their land by the violence of settler militias, supported by state authorities. The state also carries out military campaigns and attacks that have displaced and expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the West Bank. This decades-long process has accelerated under the current government. Between 2023 and 2025, 185 new settlement outposts were established, about 130 of them farms. Settler militias using these outposts as bases now control more than 1.07 million dunams, or 18% of the West Bank. 65 Palestinian communities have been completely displaced, and 18 others have been partially displaced. This is the Elimination Project. Read more in our new report >> btselem.org/the_elimination_…