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Watch: Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, speaking at the launch of our new report, The Elimination Project, and calling on the international community to act: “How much more evidence do you need before you act? Statements do not protect anyone until they become action. Every day without meaningful action gives Israel more time to deepen this project and make it harder to reverse.” The Elimination Project shows how Israel is systematically using interconnected mechanisms: violence, displacement, restrictions on movement, economic strangulation and political repression to dismantle the conditions that allow Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while expanding and entrenching Israeli control and Jewish supremacy. The international community must stop treating these isolated violations and end the impunity that allows this system to continue. Read the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم91,360 views • 4 days ago
“The goal is to establish a settler-colonial system in the West Bank and create geographic, institutional and demographic contiguity for the Jewish-settler presence on the ground, while fragmenting and dismantling the Palestinian presence by eliminating Palestinian society as a collective idea and as a collective existence,” said Kareem Jubran, Director of B’Tselem’s Field Research Department, at the press conference launching our new report, The Elimination Project. The report examines how Israel is dismantling the material, social and political conditions that enable Palestinians to exist as a society and as a collective in the West Bank: to live on their land, earn a living, maintain communities, social ties and political institutions, organize and exercise their collective rights, and uphold the possibility of a future. By violently reshaping the territory, Israel is working to permanently cement exclusive Jewish-Israeli control and sovereignty over the entire area. Connect the dots. See the system. Read the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم21,948 views • 1 day ago
Israel is no longer hiding its intentions. They are now out in the open. In recent years, ministers, MKs, top military officers, and even the prime minister himself have openly boasted about the Elimination Project Israel is implementing in the West Bank. They take pride in the violence, land grabs, settlement expansion, the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, home demolitions, and efforts to change the reality on the ground. What was once denied or hidden is now being said openly. No need to guess or search for hidden plans. Just listen to what they say and look at what is happening on the ground. B’Tselem’s new report shows that these are not merely isolated extremist remarks. They reflect a political plan, backed by an entire system designed to carry it out. Its purpose is to dismantle the very infrastructure that allows Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while expanding and reinforcing Israeli control and Jewish presence across the area. This is the elimination project, and it is being carried out in the open. Read more about “The Elimination Project” on our website.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم50,423 views • 3 days ago
ישראל כבר לא מנסה להסתיר. הכל חשוף. שרים, חברי כנסת, קצינים בכירים ואפילו ראש הממשלה מדברים בשנים האחרונות בגאווה על פרויקט המחיקה שישראל מיישמת בגדה המערבית: על האלימות, על ההשתלטות על הקרקע, הרחבת ההתנחלויות, גירוש פלסטינים מאדמתם, הרס בתים ועל שינוי המציאות בשטח. לא צריך לנחש מהי המדיניות. לא צריך לחפש תוכניות סודיות. צריך פשוט להקשיב למה שהם אומרים - ולהסתכל על מה שקורה בשטח. הדו״ח החדש של בצלם מראה שהדברים האלה אינם אוסף של הצהרות קיצוניות. הם מתארים פרויקט פוליטי שמיושם באמצעות מערכת שלמה ומטרתו לפרק את התנאים שמאפשרים לפלסטינים להתקיים כקולקטיב בגדה המערבית, ובמקביל להרחיב ולקבע את השליטה הישראלית ואת הנוכחות היהודית במרחב. זהו פרויקט המחיקה. והוא מתבצע בגלוי. קראו עוד על פרויקט המחיקה באתר הדוח.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم39,467 views • 3 days ago
New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever. Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car. Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother. In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.
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What is really happening in the West Bank? To understand the reality, one must look beyond isolated events and examine the system that connects them. Join B’Tselem Executive Director, Yuli Novak, and Karim Jubran, B’Tselem’s Field Research Director, on a journey through the West Bank to see Israel’s elimination project in action, and to understand how its implementation has accelerated in recent years. The film presents the central conclusions of our new report, “The Elimination Project,” which was published today. It brings together what we document daily across the West Bank: lethal violence, dispossession, settlement expansion, home demolitions, and the institutionalized dismantling of the conditions that sustain Palestinian life. Only by connecting these Phenomena can we see the system for what it is. Israel is employing coordinated mechanisms to dismantle the very infrastructure that allows Palestinians to exist in the West Bank as a collective, while simultaneously expanding and entrenching Israeli control and Jewish presence across the territory. Watch the film to get the full picture: the elimination project, what it is, how it operates, and how it has grown out of decades of Israeli apartheid. Connect the dots. See the system. Read the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم52,182 views • 5 days ago
"All this didn't start with the current Israeli government, and it didn't begin on October 7th. Over time the methods have changed, the scale changed, but the direction remained. In the West Bank apartheid remains the central legal framework for understanding the Israeli regime and the crimes committed to maintain it", said Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, at the launch of our new report The Elimination Project. A checkpoint. A community forced from its land. A farmer unable to reach his fields. An economy pushed further into crisis. A journalist arrested. These may look like separate events. B’Tselem’s new report shows that they are interconnected parts of the same system. Understand the logic behind what is happening in the West Bank. See the full picture. Read the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم23,257 views • 3 days ago
Watch: Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder, Cynthia Nixon and Michael Stipe (Michael Stipe) join B’Tselem’s call to stop Israel’s Elimination Project in the West Bank. In the video, the artists and B’Tselem team members say that “Israel is carrying out a campaign to eliminate Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank.” They call on the international community to take action to stop this project and note that “U.S. taxpayer dollars are funding these crimes." Our new report, “The Elimination Project”, examines how Israel is dismantling the material, social and political conditions that enable Palestinians to exist as a society and as a collective in the West Bank: to live on their land, earn a living, maintain communities, social ties and political institutions, organize and exercise their collective rights, and uphold the possibility of a future. By violently reshaping the territory, Israel is working to permanently cement exclusive Jewish-Israeli control and sovereignty over the entire area. What is happening in the West Bank is not a series of isolated incidents. When you look closely and connect the dots, the picture is clear: this is all part of one political project. Read more about “The Elimination Project” >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم30,702 views • 4 days ago
מה באמת קורה בגדה המערבית? כדי להבין את המציאות חייבים להסתכל מעבר לאירוע הבודד. הצטרפו ליולי נובק, מנכ״לית בצלם, ולכרים ג׳ובראן, מנהל מחלקת השטח שלנו, למסע בגדה כדי לראות איך פועלת המערכת הישראלית שמוחקת את הקיום הקולקטיבי הפלסטיני בגדה המערבית, ועד כמה הואץ הפרויקט בשטח בשנים האחרונות. הסרט מציג את הממצאים המרכזיים מתוך הדו״ח החדש שאנחנו מפרסמים השבוע, "פרויקט המחיקה", ומחבר בין התופעות שאנו רואים בגדה מדי יום: הרג ואלימות, נישול ופגיעה ממוסדת בכל תחומי החיים. כשמחברים בין כל האירועים, רואים את המערכת: ישראל מפעילה מנגנונים מתואמים שמפרקים את התנאים שמאפשרים לפלסטינים להתקיים כקולקטיב בגדה המערבית. צפו בסרט כדי לראות את התמונה המלאה: מהו פרויקט המחיקה, איך הוא פועל, ואיך הוא צמח מתוך עשרות שנים של משטר אפרטהייד ישראלי. לחבר את הנקודות. לראות את המערכת. קישור לקריאת הדו"ח המלא >>
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On October 26, 2025, Muhammad Bahajat al-Halaq, 9, was playing soccer with other children and teenagers in the schoolyard of the village of a-Rihiya in the Hebron district. During the game, two military jeeps entered the village. Fearing that the soldiers would fire tear gas at them, as had happened before, the children ran from the playground and hid among the houses. Four soldiers exited one of the jeeps. Two of them began shooting in the direction in which the children had fled. One soldier fired tear gas canisters, while the other fired live ammunition. One of the bullets struck Muhammad. After he was shot, the soldiers continued firing tear gas toward the spot where he had fallen. When a local resident tried to reach Muhammad, the soldiers shot at him as well. Eventually, the man managed to reach Muhammad and evacuate him. Muhammad was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His mother, ‘Aliyah, said that Muhammad loved soccer, was an excellent student, and dreamed of becoming a doctor. “When he played with his brothers, he would always ask them to call him ‘Dr. Muhammad.’ But that dream will never be fulfilled now that he has been shot and killed by an Israeli soldier.” Muhammad is one of 54 children and teens killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025. Our report, Unshielded Childhood, tells their stories and the circumstances that led to each of their deaths. Since October 2023, 1,100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in the West Bank, including 242 children and teenagers, through 27 July 2026. This reality is the result of an Israeli policy that enables and sanctions the killings, with no one held accountable. Read our latest report, “Unshielded Childhood” >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم177,554 views • 26 days ago
For decades, B’Tselem has documented violence, demolitions, displacement and the dispossession of Palestinians from their land in the West Bank. Raj’in (“We Shall Return”) brings this documentation work into a new medium. Co-created by Faiz Abu Rmeleh and Keren Manor and co-produced by B’Tselem and NowHere Media, the film, which is currently being screened as part of the Venice International Film Festival, was shot with 360° cameras and also incorporates footage filmed by Palestinian residents and protective presence activists. Through virtual reality, it places viewers inside the spaces where Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank face Israeli violence, demolitions and displacement from their land. Since October 2023, 65 Palestinian communities have been entirely forcibly displaced, while another 18 have been partially displaced. More than 4,861 people have been driven from their homes and land, including at least 2,315 children.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم54,554 views • 13 days ago
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“This is silly Taha”, his sister was filming to tease him, as she captured his death. >
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم3,997,910 views • 2 years ago
צפו: השחקניות סוזן סרנדון, האנה איינבינדר, סינת׳יה ניקסון ומייקל סטייפ מצטרפים לקריאה של ״בצלם״ לעצור את פרויקט המחיקה שמבצעת ישראל בגדה המערבית. בסרטון, בו משתתפים האמנים ואנשי צוות הארגון, הם אומרים כי ״ישראל פועלת למחיקת הקיום הפלסטיני הקולקטיבי בגדה המערבית״, הם קוראים לקהילה הבינלאומית לפעול לעצירת הפרויקט, ומתייחסים גם לתמיכה האמריקאית שמאפשרת לישראל להמשיך ולבצע את פשעיה כנגד העם הפלסטיני. הדוח החדש שפרסמנו, פרויקט המחיקה, מנתח כיצד ישראל פועלת לפרק את התנאים החומריים, החברתיים והפוליטיים שמאפשרים לפלסטינים להתקיים כחברה וכקולקטיב בגדה המערבית: לחיות על אדמתם, להתפרנס, לקיים קהילות, קשרים ומוסדות פוליטיים, להתארגן ולממש את זכויותיהם הקולקטיביות ואת האפשרות לעתיד. זאת, תוך ארגון מחדש של המרחב באמצעות אלימות ובמטרה לבסס שליטה וריבונות יהודית-ישראלית בלעדית וקבועה על כל המרחב. מה שקורה בגדה המערבית אינו סדרה של אירועים מבודדים. כשמסתכלים היטב ומחברים את הנקודות, התמונה ברורה. כל אלה הם חלק מפרויקט פוליטי אחד. קראו עוד על פרויקט המחיקה באתר הדוח >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم14,372 views • 4 days ago
תיעוד חדש שהגיע לידי בצלם חושף את רגעי הירי במשפחת אבו הייכל, שכתוצאה ממנו נהרג סאם אבו הייכל, תינוק בן 7 חודשים, ונפצעו שני הוריו. מהתיעוד עולה בבירור כי הירי שביצע החייל לעבר הרכב בוצע בזמן שנהג הרכב האט את נסיעתו לקראת עצירה, וכאשר היה במרחק מהחיילים ולא היווה כל סכנה עבורם. בהמשך, בסרטון נוסף שהגיע לידי בצלם, נראה פאהד, אביו של סאם בן ה-7 חודשים, ברגעים הראשונים לאחר הירי בבנו. האב נראה כאשר הוא אוחז בתינוק ומנסה לעצור בידיו את הדימום מראשו. עוד ניתן לראותבתיעוד את אימו של התינוק, דאניה, שנפצעה גם היא מהירי בזמן שאחזה בבנה, כשהיא יושבת על הכביש לצד רכב המשפחה. ביום שישי האחרון, 5 ביוני, חייל ישראלי פתח באש קטלנית לעבר משפחה פלסטינית, שחזרה מביקור משפחתי, בעת שנסעה ברכבה בשכונת תל רומיידה בחברון. הירי בוצע לאחר שאב המשפחה, שנהג ברכב, הבחיןבחיילים שעמדו על הכביש והאט. סאם, תינוק בן 7 חודשים, שהיה באותה עת בזרועותיה של אימו במושב האחורי, נפגע בראשו מהירי ומותו נקבע זמן קצר לאחר מכן. מהירי נפצעו גם אביו של סאם ואימו, שעדייןמאושפזת בבית החולים. לאחר הירי החייל היורה וחייל נוסף שהיה עמו עזבו את המקום מבלי לבדוק את הרכב ומבלי להגיש סיוע לתינוק הפצוע אנוש ולאימו. בשנתיים וחצי האחרונות ישראל הרגה למעלה מ-20,000 ילדים בעזה ובגדה המערבית. החסינות שהמערכת הישראלית מעניקה לחיילים ולמתנחלים הובילה למציאות יומיומית בה הרג של פלסטינים, באשר הוא, נתמך ומגובה על ידי המערכת - אפילו כשמדובר בתינוק בן 7 חודשים.
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In 2025, Israel killed 54 Palestinian children and teens in the West Bank. in B’Tselem’s latest report, we bring you the story of each and every one. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,086 Palestinians in the West Bank; 241 of them were children or teens, including Sam Abu Haikal, a seven-month-old baby . The violence did not stop with the act of injuring or killing. In many cases, the forces held up medical teams trying to access the child, without offering first aid themselves. Israel is still holding 18 of the bodies, a practice it frequently employs, which amplifies the families’ suffering. Under the Israeli regime, no Palestinian is safe, while any Israeli who harms them enjoys close to full impunity. Read our latest report, which presents the stories of all 54 children and teens killed last year>>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم215,109 views • 2 months ago
Israel has turned its prisons into a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care and abuse in everyfacility they are held in. Some have also been severely sexually assaulted. Since October 2023, at least 84 Palestinians have died in these torture camps. The policymakers, and primarily Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, brag in TV puff pieces and on social media about what is happening in these torture camps. Today, we published “Living Hell”, a report on the situation of Palestinians in Israeli custody. It is based on the testimonies of Palestinians released in recent months, along with research, reports, news updates and Israel Prison Service figures, and continues our previous report on the issue, “Welcome to Hell”, from August 2024. Systematic, deliberate abuse continues to define Israel’s policy toward Palestinian prisoners in its custody, and is another feature of the Israeli regime’s coordinated onslaught on the Palestinian people. Link to the full report >
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم590,401 views • 8 months ago
For the first time since the 1967 occupation, Israel is expelling an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem. The Silwan area, located near the "Holy Basin," the Temple Mount, and al-Aqsa Mosque, is home to many archaeological and historical sites of exceptional significance. As of April 2026, approximately 1,800 residents in Silwan are under threat of expulsion, after hundreds have already been uprooted and left homeless in the past two years. In Baten al-Hawa alone, 33 families have already been expelled, and 53 additional families, including 130 children, face a similar fate. In al-Bustan, Israel has already demolished 48 homes and plans to demolish the homes of 123 more families, which will lead to the expulsion of approximately 1,450 people. The expulsion in Silwan is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout the entire West Bank. Link to the full article >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم318,325 views • 4 months ago
The ʿAsʿus family was about to sit down for dinner when they heard gunfire from the street. Everyone rushed to take cover. Two-year-old Layla was sitting in her mother’s lap when a bullet struck her in the head. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital. The shooters were Israeli soldiers who had were carrying out a raid in a neighboring home in the village of Muthallath a-Shuhada in Jenin District, on 25 January 2025. Layla is one of 54 children and teens killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025. Our new report, Unshielded Childhood, released this week, tells their stories and the circumstances that led to each of their deaths. Since October 2023, Israel has killed 241 children and teenagers in the West Bank, the highest number of Palestinian minors killed there since the territory was occupied in 1967. This is the result of an Israeli policy that enables and backs the killing of Palestinians, without anyone being held to account. Read our latest report, "Unshielded Childhood" >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم162,278 views • 2 months ago