Israel calls B’Tselem's central claim of dismantiling Palestinian life, baseless

Israel is systematically dismantling Palestinian collective life in the West Bank, the NGO B'Tselem claimed in a new report titled “The Elimination Project.”B'Tselem has been critical of Israel for decades, but in recent years its reports have become even harder-hitting, going so far as to label Israel an apartheid state.Israel and the IDF have vehemently rejected the vast majority of the claims as groundless or sensationalized, while acknowledging specific, more limited criticisms in some circumstances.The report considers Israel to be orchestrating a comprehensive mechanism of elimination that works to “dismantle the conditions for continued Palestinian existence in the West Bank, while deepening Jewish control and supremacy in an irreversible manner.“At any moment, Palestinians may be exposed to violence by soldiers or armed settler militias, arrested and imprisoned, subjected to abuse and humiliation, and sometimes even killed,” it claims.“The Elimination Project” purportedly draws on more than 2,000 testimonies from Palestinians since…