France, June 10 -- In a report released on Wednesday, the rights group said rural Palestinian communities were facing a sharp increase in settler violence, land grabs and forced displacement, particularly in Area C of the West Bank, which makes up around 60 percent of the territory and remains under Israeli control under the Oslo agreements of the 1990s.

The report, titled Erasing anything Palestinian: Israel's ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities, said Israeli authorities were "accelerating annexation through a state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities".

Amnesty said its research found that 27 Bedouin and herding communities, comprising hundreds of Palestini...