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An Israeli court froze a key step in the government's controversial West Bank land registration process, which critics have described as 'de facto annexation.' Rights advocates welcomed the freeze, which came amid related friction in the West Bank, including a reservist removed from duty. A new report by Israeli rights group B'Tselem, titled 'The Elimination Project,' alleges Israel is systematically trying to eliminate living conditions for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with constant settler and soldier attacks forming part of a government-backed plan to make Palestinian life unbearable. Separately, a report detailed how Israel is deploying AI tools to accelerate forced evictions and automate demolitions of Palestinian structures across the occupied territories, further intensifying pressure on Palestinian communities. Together, the reports point to an escalating, technologically enabled campaign of displacement in the West Bank even as courts intervene on narrower procedural grounds.