Overview
- B'Tselem published the report on Monday, calling Israel's actions in the West Bank a coordinated "project of elimination" that aims to dismantle Palestinian collective life.
- The group identifies five linked mechanisms—violence and intimidation, territorial takeover and ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, and political and social destruction—that it says work together to shrink and displace Palestinian communities.
- The report uses roughly 2,000 interviews and official documents to document casualties and land loss, including its finding that 1,037 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank between 7 October 2023 and 30 June 2026.
- B'Tselem says these policies accelerated after the late‑2022 government took office and intensified after October 2023, and it urges international action beyond public statements to address what it calls systematic impunity.
- The report places the current campaign in a decades‑long pattern of land appropriation that dates to 1967, cites specific figures for land taken and community expulsions, and links recent strategy to settler expansion plans and state planning powers.