Israel working to eliminate Palestinian presence from West Bank, NGO warns

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem details five mechanisms used by Israel to dismantle Palestinian collective life.Israel is executing a systematic and accelerated campaign to dismantle “Palestinian collective life” and establish permanent Jewish-Israeli sovereignty across the occupied West Bank, an Israeli human rights group has warned.The “Elimination Project”, published on Monday by B’Tselem, details several tactics used by the Israeli government to help it achieve its overall objective of “erasing the Palestinian presence” from the occupied West Bank.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank are choking the Palestinian economylist 2 of 3Israel arrests 100 Palestinians in a week as West Bank pogroms continuelist 3 of 3How significant are new European sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements?end of listThe report argues that while Israeli policies have been rooted in a long-term settler colonial framework, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has entered an accelerated phase of this objective since late 2022, particularly after the Hamas-led October 2023 attack on southern Israel.“What Palestinians are living through in ...