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.

Israeli soldiers move on a street during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Anata on September 8, 2026 [Leo Correa/AP Photo]

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.

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The 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 the West Bank is not a series of separate incidents. It is a single political project that reaches into every part of life,” said B’Tselem executive director Yuli Novak.

The report outlines five interconnected mechanisms Israel uses to advance its West Bank project, drawing from roughly 2,000 testimonies given by Palestinians.

Firstly, Israel is “using military forces and armed settler militias to impose violence, fear and coercion”, according to the report.

Between October 2023 and September 2026, Israel killed at least 1,107 Palestinians in attacks across the occupied West Bank, the NGO said.

The Israeli army uses military operations and demolitions and assists armed settlers in driving Palestinians from their land to expand its presence in the territory, the report said.

To date, at least 75 Palestinian communities have been forcibly displaced, it said. Israel has, via armed settlers, taken control of more than 1,070,000 dunams of land, equivalent to 18 percent of the West Bank as of July, 2026, it said. A dunam is a unit of land area commonly used in the region, equal to 1,000 square meters (about 0.247 acres or 0.1 hectare). Furthermore, about 33,000 Palestinians have been displaced from refugee camps in the northern West Bank.

Israel also actively restricts Palestinians’ movement, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs documenting 925 movement obstacles, including roadblocks and unmanned checkpoints, throughout the territory by the end of last year.

The Israeli government has purposefully stifled the West Bank’s economy , with unemployment rising from 13.1 percent in 2022 to more than 31 percent in 2024.

Lastly, Israel actively criminalises political organising, suppressing protests and arresting activists, students and journalists.

Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, it has arrested at least 60 Palestinian journalists working in the occupied West Bank.

B’Tselem urged the international community to stop viewing Israel’s violations as isolated incidents and to end complicity in its actions.

It also called for immediate global action to protect Palestinians and dismantle Israel’s military rule and apartheid system.

“Palestinians are being left exposed to escalating violence while Israel advances its project of elimination in the West Bank. Governments cannot condemn these crimes while granting Israel the impunity to continue,” said Novak.

“Together with international institutions, they must use every means available under international law to stop Israel’s crimes and halt the machinery of violence and destruction that is tearing Palestinian life apart.”

以色列人权组织B'Tselem详细列举了以色列用来瓦解巴勒斯坦集体生活的五种机制。

2026年9月8日，以色列士兵在被占领的约旦河西岸城镇阿纳塔的一次突袭行动中走上街头。[Leo Correa/AP Photo]

以色列人权组织警告称，以色列正在实施一项系统且加速的运动，旨在瓦解“巴勒斯坦集体生活”，并在被占领的西岸建立永久的犹太-以色列主权。

以色列人权组织B'Tselem周一发布的《清除计划》详细介绍了以色列政府为实现其“从被占领的西岸抹去巴勒斯坦人的存在”这一总体目标而采取的几种策略。

以色列在西岸设立的三个检查站之一正在扼杀巴勒斯坦经济

以色列一周内逮捕100名巴勒斯坦人，西岸地区持续发生针对巴勒斯坦人的种族清洗事件（列表2/3）。

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该报告认为，虽然以色列的政策根植于长期的定居者殖民框架，但自 2022 年末以来，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的政府已经进入了加速实现这一目标的阶段，尤其是在哈马斯领导的 2023 年 10 月袭击以色列南部之后。

“巴勒斯坦人在西岸所经历的并非一系列孤立的事件，而是一个渗透到生活方方面面的单一政治项目，”B'Tselem执行主任尤利·诺瓦克说道。

该报告概述了以色列为推进其西岸项目而使用的五种相互关联的机制，并引用了约 2000 名巴勒斯坦人的证词。

报告指出，首先，以色列“利用军队和武装定居者民兵来施加暴力、恐惧和胁迫”。

该非政府组织称，2023 年 10 月至 2026 年 9 月期间，以色列在被占领的西岸地区发动袭击，造成至少 1107 名巴勒斯坦人死亡。

报告称，以色列军队利用军事行动和爆破，并协助武装定居者将巴勒斯坦人驱逐出他们的土地，以扩大其在该地区的存在。

报告称，迄今为止，至少有75个巴勒斯坦社区被迫流离失所。以色列通过武装定居者控制了超过107万杜纳姆（约合1000平方米，约合0.247英亩或0.1公顷）的土地，相当于截至2026年7月西岸地区总面积的18%。杜纳姆是该地区常用的土地面积单位。此外，约有3.3万巴勒斯坦人从西岸北部的难民营流离失所。

以色列还积极限制巴勒斯坦人的行动自由。联合国人道主义事务协调厅记录显示，截至去年年底，以色列境内共设置了 925 个行动障碍，包括路障和无人值守的检查站。

以色列政府蓄意扼杀西岸经济，导致失业率从 2022 年的 13.1% 上升到 2024 年的 31% 以上。

最后，以色列积极将政治组织活动定为犯罪，镇压抗议活动，逮捕活动人士、学生和记者。

自以色列于 2023 年 10 月开始对加沙发动种族灭绝战争以来，至少有 60 名在被占领的约旦河西岸工作的巴勒斯坦记者遭到逮捕。

B'Tselem敦促国际社会停止将以色列的侵犯行为视为孤立事件，并停止对其行为的纵容。

它还呼吁全球立即采取行动，保护巴勒斯坦人民，并解散以色列的军事统治和种族隔离制度。

诺瓦克说：“巴勒斯坦人正遭受日益升级的暴力威胁，而以色列却在西岸推进其种族灭绝计划。各国政府不能一方面谴责这些罪行，另一方面又放任以色列逍遥法外。”

“他们必须与国际机构一道，利用国际法允许的一切手段，制止以色列的罪行，并停止撕裂巴勒斯坦人生活的暴力和破坏机器。”