Sep 24, 2026 · 36 min · 9 segments
In its new report, The Elimination Project: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank, B’Tselem examines what it describes as a system of interconnected policies…
Yuli NovakGuest
Diana ButtuHost
We're talking about this truly excellent and mammoth report that B'Tselem just put out that has this frightening title.
Can you talk us through it? What's the report about for those who haven't read it?
We and I deeply believe that in order to struggle system, you have to understand it.
So we try to give words to the system that conduct this political violence in the West Bank.
We're talking about more than 2000 testimonies that we collected throughout the past three years, but also decades of documentation that B'Tselem has and other organization documentation and analysis.
And then we started looking at more deeply into the policies and into the declaration and how the system itself, how power talks about what takes place in the West Bank.
One system with very clear direction that works to eliminate, to erase the collective Palestinian existence in the West Bank.
They are working together and enhance each other, right? So we are talking about violence and intimidation, actually terrorizing the whole population.
We're talking about the ethnic cleansing and takeover land, about political suffocation, and about the political and social destruction.
And when you take all these kind of arms of the Israeli system and you look at it together, you see how it works on individuals, it works on families, It works on communities, but also on the collective itself.
And from the other side, you can hear Israel officials and look into documents and official sources and see their intentions.
We're talking about this truly excellent and mammoth report that B'Tselem just put out that has this frightening title.
Can you talk us through it? What's the report about for those who haven't read it?
We and I deeply believe that in order to struggle system, you have to understand it.
So we try to give words to the system that conduct this political violence in the West Bank.
We're talking about more than 2000 testimonies that we collected throughout the past three years, but also decades of documentation that B'Tselem has and other organization documentation and analysis.
And then we started looking at more deeply into the policies and into the declaration and how the system itself, how power talks about what takes place in the West Bank.
One system with very clear direction that works to eliminate, to erase the collective Palestinian existence in the West Bank.
They are working together and enhance each other, right? So we are talking about violence and intimidation, actually terrorizing the whole population.
We're talking about the ethnic cleansing and takeover land, about political suffocation, and about the political and social destruction.
And when you take all these kind of arms of the Israeli system and you look at it together, you see how it works on individuals, it works on families, It works on communities, but also on the collective itself.
And from the other side, you can hear Israel officials and look into documents and official sources and see their intentions.
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