Israeli rights group accuses Israel of seeking to erase Palestinian presence in occupied West Bank

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem on Monday accused Israel of seeking to erase the Palestinian presence in the occupied West Bank through a series of interconnected policies aimed at reshaping the territory, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the group said Israel is simultaneously employing five mechanisms that reinforce one another to dismantle the collective Palestinian presence and establish a permanent and contiguous Israeli-Jewish presence and sovereignty in the territory. B’Tselem said Israeli policy in the occupied West Bank entered a new phase at the end of 2022, characterized by increasingly overt and accelerated policies of control, violence and dispossession. “What Palestinians in the West Bank are experiencing is part of a single political project that permeates every aspect of life,” B’Tselem […]