Yuli Novak

Now these five mechanisms that they've outlined are violence and intimidation, restrictions on movement, Israel's economic strangulation, its political and social destruction, and the ethnic cleansing and territorial takeover.

In this episode, I speak with Yuli Novak, who is the executive director of B'Tselem, about the report and about the broader picture of what's happening in the West Bank and how these different mechanisms come together to shape the reality that Palestinians are living through today.

She concludes by telling us what it is that we need to do and what we need to be aware of.

Yuli, thank

The report says Israel is, quote, dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank, including, quote, the ability to get to work, take children to school or university, receive medical treatment or municipal services, meet family and friends, cultivate land, or go on vacation—routine activities that make up human life.

This is B'Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak in a video that accompanied the report.

Israel is dismantling the basic conditions needed for collective Palestinian existence in the West Bank.

Our new report, The Elimination Project, shows how this mechanism works and how over the past three years it has become more lethal, violent and explicit.

Here's NPR's Carrie Kahn

B'Tselem director Yuli Novak says this report details what she says is a plan aimed at, quote, "the elimination of Palestinian society through violence, land seizures, movement restrictions, and economic strangulation"

Is accelerating by the day and, and we haven't seen the end of it.

Those actions have intensified since the Hamas-led attack on Israel nearly three years ago that killed and took hostage more than 1,200 people.

This is Democracy Now! Two leading Israeli human rights groups, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, have accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.

Yuli Novak, the executive director of B'Tselem, spoke in Jerusalem Monday.

The report we are publishing today is one we never imagined we would have to write.

But in recent months, we have been witnessing a reality that has left us no choice