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Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a report accusing Israeli settlers of engaging in violence aimed at eliminating Palestinian existence in the West Bank, describing it as a 'project of elimination.' The report adds to mounting international scrutiny of settler violence amid the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Follow-up coverage indicates the report's findings, alongside related settlement sanctions, have sparked a diplomatic crisis, drawing sharper reactions from foreign governments and human rights bodies over Israel's settlement policy and its handling of settler violence in the occupied territories.