Amnesty International Says Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor Promote Israeli Settlement Rights Violations

Amnesty International said that online reservation giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor “favorisent des violations des droits humains des Palestiniens” by presenting “plusieurs centaines d’hébergements et d’activités” in Israeli settlement colonies in occupied Palestinian territory, including in “Jérusalem-Est.”

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Amnesty International

In its report titled Destination : Occupation, Amnesty International said the companies “attirent les touristes dans les colonies israéliennes illégales et contribuent ainsi à leur existence et à leur extension,” while also arguing that Israel’s policy of installing Israeli civilians in occupied Palestinian territory “viole le droit international humanitaire et constitue un crime de guerre.”

Amnesty International

Amnesty International highlighted the colony of Kfar Adumim, saying it attracts an increasing number of tourists and is “à moins de deux kilomètres du village bédouin de Khan al Ahmar,” whose total demolition is described as “imminente” and approved by the Israeli Supreme Court.

The organization said Airbnb had committed in November 2018 to remove offers in settlements in the West Bank after investigations by Al Jazeera and Human Rights Watch, but “n’a toutefois pas étendu cet engagement à Jérusalem-Est occupée,” where it offers “plus de 100 offres.”

Amnesty International called on Airbnb to remove offers from settlements in occupied territory, and said Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor must remove offers from “les TPO,” adding that “Les crimes de guerre ne sont pas des attractions touristiques.”

وكالة شهاب الإخبارية said that on Monday evening Israeli settlers stormed the Khan al-Ahmar village east of occupied East Jerusalem while occupation forces carried out raids and searches in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates.

The report said local sources described settlers entering the village “trying to provoke the residents and assault them,” and it linked repeated attacks on Bedouin communities east of Jerusalem to policies aimed at displacing residents for settlement expansion.

Chronique de Palestine

In the same context, the agency said Israeli occupation forces raided the village of al-Mughir, northeast of Ramallah, and erected a military checkpoint on the Yabrud–Silwad road, with forces deployed in village streets and “no reports of arrests or injuries so far.”

عرب 48 described a weekly settlement report for the period 2026.3.28 to 2026.4.3, issued by the National Office for the Defense of the Land and Resistance to Settlement, citing the Jerusalem Governorate and saying the occupation authorities deposited “Settlement Plan No. 1627/7” on March 25, 2026.

The report said the plan targets Bedouin gatherings including Khan al-Ahmar, Abu al-Nawar, and Arab al-Jahalin, aiming at forcibly displacing them to a closed urban settlement and “dismantling their social fabric and destroying their economy.”

RTS reported that the Israeli government approved on Wednesday a project to build giant settlements comprising “3,400 new housing units,” and it said the plan “threatens about twenty Bedouin communities” including Jabal al-Baba.

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Middle East Eye

Atala Jahalin, head of the Bedouin community of Jabal al-Baba, said, “We will only be moved by force,” and warned that if they stay “we risk ending up under siege, trapped between a new Israeli road and yet another separation wall.”

RTS also said expulsion orders had already been sent to the population by the Israeli army about “ten days ago,” and it quoted Jahalin saying, “We expect the army to arrive any second. They will drive us out and take our houses, our memories, our lives.”

In a separate account, Vatican News said the Holy Land Coordination’s final press release began with the assessment that this was “a pilgrimage in a land where the populations suffer enormous trauma,” and it described listening to stories of attacks by Israeli settlers, including “cattle thefts and property demolitions.”

The bishops’ press release urged governments to “pressure Israel to respect the international order based on rules and to relaunch meaningful negotiations toward a two-state solution,” while also insisting, “When a mother or father asks for an end to violence, the world must listen and act.”