A report by the human rights organization B’Tselem suggests that Israel is systematically undermining the conditions necessary for Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. The report, which was shared with the Guardian ahead of its official release, claims that Israel is significantly increasing its attacks on all aspects of daily life for Palestinians, including access to work, education, healthcare, and basic social interactions. According to B’Tselem, these actions are guided by a consistent strategy that includes five interconnected areas: violence and intimidation, movement restrictions, economic pressure, the erosion of social and political structures, and the displacement of Palestinians through ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion. This report, titled the "Elimination Project," is B’Tselem’s most comprehensive analysis of the West Bank since the group was founded in 1989. It follows a recent statement by the British foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, who accused Israeli settlers, backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, of carrying out ethnic cleansing in the region—Britain’s strongest condemnation of Israel since the country’s founding. The report highlights that 1,107 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces since October 2023. It claims that various parts of the Israeli government, led by Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right finance minister with significant authority over civilian affairs in the West Bank, are working to create an environment where millions of Palestinians live in constant fear of violence. The report describes an accelerating process in which Palestinian communities are being displaced, while Israeli settlements, infrastructure, and civilian presence expand in their place. In this context, "elimination" refers to sustained harm to the conditions that allow Palestinians to maintain a distinct peoplehood with land, culture, and institutions. The report argues that this is not a temporary situation but a long-term political strategy aimed at making Jewish presence in the region permanent and continuous while fragmenting and weakening Palestinian existence. One of the clearest signs of this fragmentation is the closure of roads and the abandonment of Palestinian homes under increasing pressure. In the village of Sair, Haytham Adnan Murad, a 49-year-old father, recently had to carry his 12-year-old daughter, Balqis, around a roadblock after the Israeli military closed a gate that had been open in the morning. Murad was returning from a hospital visit with his daughter, who is unable to walk due to recent surgery. “When we left, the gate was open. Now it’s closed, but this is daily life,” he said. “In the morning, things are different from the afternoon. There's no dignity in this.” The report links the intensification of Israeli actions in the West Bank to the period following the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023. However, it argues that the underlying ideology behind these actions predates that date. A key document cited in the report is the "Decisive Plan," a 2017 proposal by Smotrich before he became a minister, which outlined three options for Palestinians: accept Jewish dominance and relinquish national claims, leave the territory, or face violent suppression. The report states that this plan has been translated into policy, budgeting, and state practices with unprecedented speed and openness. As a result, settler violence is no longer just private or disorderly but is now part of a broader system of control, often carried out with state support and resources. In addition to settler violence, the report highlights other damaging effects of Israel’s policies, including economic restrictions, the impact on education, and the suppression of cultural and social organizations. Israel has implemented a systematic policy of economic strangulation since 2023, which has disrupted livelihoods, destroyed infrastructure, restricted access to resources, and undermined public services. This has led to a sharp rise in unemployment, with nearly half of young people in the West Bank neither working nor in education or training in 2025. The UN estimates that 700,000 Palestinians needed food assistance in 2024, a 17% increase from the previous year. Additionally, since October 2023, Israel has intensified attacks on Palestinian organizations, leading to the closure of many community and support groups. Cogat, the Israeli military unit responsible for civilian policy in the West Bank and Gaza, has not yet commented on the report.