Israel expands expulsions in occupied West Bank to cement control
Israel escalates forced expulsions and infrastructure destruction with the goal of imposing 'new reality', analysts say.
More than 3,000 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron as the Israeli army escalates a sweeping military operation that human rights experts describe as a calculated effort to permanently displace the Palestinian population.
Israel has imposed a lockdown across the city and detained at least 71 people over the past four days, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said on Monday a total of 488 families comprising 3,171 people had been displaced across the wider governorate, while Mayor Yousef al-Jabari told Al Jazeera that 3,043 of those forced from their homes are from within Hebron city limits alone.
Katz previously said the aggressive tactics in Jenin represented “the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza”, where Israel’s genocidal three-year war has killed more than 74,000 people and left the vast majority of the territory in ruins.