The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) announced Wednesday that the recent illegal settler violence in the occupied West Bank provoked the “largest forcible transfer” since the weeks following October 7.

Allegra Pacheco, chief of party of the NRC-led West Bank Protection Consortium (WBPC) appealed in a statement to the international community including the United States and the European Union to urgently “intervene with the Israeli occupation authorities and protect these vulnerable communities.”

“Those that left want to return to their lands and livelihoods as soon as it is safe,” he added.

NRC pointed out in its statement that three communities, comprising 119 Palestinians, have been forced out in the last ten days due to attacks carried out by illegal Jewish settlers on community members in their homes, during which they established new settler outposts and blocked access to water.