Israeli Forces Seal Hebron, Evict 240 Families as Netanyahu Vows House-to-House West Bank Raids
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Updated · NBC News · Oct 25
Israeli Forces Seal Hebron, Evict 240 Families as Netanyahu Vows House-to-House West Bank Raids
3 articles · Updated · NBC News · Oct 25
Summary
Hebron was sealed off Friday after a shooting attack, with Israeli forces closing city entrances, shutting a key mosque and removing residents from multiple neighborhoods.
About 240 Palestinian families were forced from their homes in Jildah and ‘Ein Deir Bahah, B’Tselem said, while soldiers occupied houses, raised Israeli flags and continued arrests and interrogations.
Riyad Mureish, 49, said soldiers gave his family minutes to grab documents before bulldozers demolished his home despite what he described as a court decree blocking the action.
Benjamin Netanyahu, campaigning before the Oct. 27 election, said the military would enter neighborhoods linked to the attackers, evacuate residents and destroy what he called terrorist infrastructure while expanding settlement infrastructure.
U.N. officials and Hebron's mayor condemned the lockdown as collective punishment, saying it further restricts movement, services and livelihoods in the West Bank's largest city of about 320,000 people.