Rights group accuses Israel of dismantling 'Palestinian existence' in West Bank

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Israeli rights group B'Tselem accuses Israel of implementing policies in the West Bank aimed at dismantling Palestinian existence. The report outlines tactics including violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, and social and economic suppression.

Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction". FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes reports.