{"id":3250,"date":"2026-10-24T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:03:50","slug":"around-1200-palestinians-are-displaced-in-hebron-as-israel-begins-military-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Around 1,200 Palestinians are displaced in Hebron as Israel begins military operation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Israeli military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their \u200bhomes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday, a day \u200cafter a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday had said the military would launch a large-scale operation after the soldiers were killed when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a military checkpoint near the city. The Israeli military said the \u200bgunmen were shot dead.<\/p>\n

They also said the operation in the Al-Jaladah and Ein Deir Baha neighbourhoods near \u200bthe military checkpoint at the entrance of Hebron was to search for militants and weapons.<\/p>\n

In \u2060a statement, it also said the military would carry out demolitions.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Authority criticised the operation as a \u201ccollective punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yousef \u200bZouhair Al-Jabari, the head of Hebron\u2019s municipality, said around 1,300 faced losing their homes in addition to the 1,200 already \u200bdisplaced.<\/p>\n

He also said the Israeli operations were motivated by parliamentary elections on Tuesday when Netanyahu\u2019s right-wing coalition may lose his majority, opinion polls show.<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu and the radical ministers in his government are trying to win as many votes as possible from the settlers,\u201d Al-Jabari said.<\/p>\n

The \u200bnon-governmental organisation the Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 Club said Israeli forces had arrested around 70 Palestinians on Friday and Saturday. Israeli officials \u200bhave not commented on any arrests.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Netanyahu\u2019s government has presided over expansion of settlements<\/h3>\n

Al-Jabari said the military had demolished shops, factories, homes, and \u200croads \u2060in Hebron and that the response was disproportionate and unjustified.<\/p>\n

Residents in Hebron told Reuters that the military expelled many people with no connection to the Palestinian attackers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are calling on officials to stand by us because we are not involved in any of this. There are children. We are isolated; we don\u2019t do anything. This is all arbitrary,\u201d said Majdi \u200bNasser, one of those driven \u200bfrom his home.<\/p>\n

Residents told Reuters<\/em> \u2060they saw Israeli soldiers marking homes with a black X after their Palestinian occupants had been forced to leave. It was not immediately clear what the X mark meant.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s government \u200bhas presided over a rapid expansion of settlements, deemed illegal by UN bodies and most \u200bcountries, though Israel \u2060disputes this.<\/p>\n

Across the West Bank, Israel has blocked the entrances to most Palestinian cities and towns, severely curtailing Palestinians\u2019 freedom of movement.<\/p>\n

Yousef Mur, a resident of the Palestinian town of Yatta, said the closures meant he was unable to reach Jerusalem \u2060with his \u200bdaughter for her cancer treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is bad, and we are suffering. \u200bWhen we tried to cross, they fired stun grenades towards us, and my girl got scared on the way. They fired stun grenades towards people. \u200bThe situation is very difficult,\u201d Mur said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Israeli military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their \u200bhomes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday, a day \u200cafter a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday had said the military would launch a large-scale operation after the soldiers were killed when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a military checkpoint near the city. The Israeli military said the \u200bgunmen were shot dead. They also said the operation in the Al-Jaladah and Ein Deir Baha neighbourhoods…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}