B'Tselem accuses Israel of 'elimination project' against Palestinians in West Bank

From within Israeli civil society, a respected human rights organization has formally named what it sees as a deliberate architecture of erasure — not through mass violence, but through the slow, structural dismantling of the conditions that allow a people to exist together. B'Tselem's characterization of Israeli West Bank policies as an 'elimination project' places the moral weight of the accusation not on an outside critic, but on an Israeli institution whose credibility is difficult to dismiss. The charge invites the world to consider whether the absence of direct killing can still constitu