Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCCXXIV: "encaged"
stirred by Israel's "Elimination Project" and full closure of occupied West Bank
The West Bank town encaged with barbed wire ... the red glow of a soldier's Marlboro against the borderless night sky
the dead
among the living
smoky rubble
FYI:
Democracy Now, September 16, 2026:
“The Elimination Project”: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B’Tselem" (Israeli human rights group)
A major new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem titled “The Elimination Project” accuses Israel of “dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank.”
B’Tselem Executive Director ,Yuli Novak: Israel is dismantling the basic conditions needed for collective Palestinian existence in the West Bank. Our new report “The Elimination Project” shows how this mechanism works and how over the past three years, it has become more lethal, violent and explicit. Come with us to the West Bank to see for yourself. The Elimination Project in the West Bank operates through five domains of action that work together and reinforce each other: killing, violence, intimidation, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction, ethnic cleansing and territorial takeover. These are all parts of a system with one aim: to ensure Jewish supremacy and eliminate the Palestinian collective.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is preparing for a large-scale operation. Israel’s military says it killed two Palestinian suspects.
Israeli bulldozers demolished a three-storey building in Hebron, with families given five minutes to collect their belongings.
The closure means nearly 1,000 checkpoints and gates across the West Bank will be closed, affecting millions of Palestinians.
Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, says incitement from far-right Israeli ministers is making the situation worse.
He says the closure turns every city and village into “a small prison”, with checkpoints and gates blocking health care, the economy and education, and warns that collective punishment will lead to explosions.
