West Bank blockade displaces nearly 5,000 Palestinians as Israeli forces close in on Hebron According to detailed data analysis published by Al Jazeera, nearly 5,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes as Israel's punitive military siege on the southern West Bank city of Hebron entered its second week. Israeli forces locked down the city by sealing off all 10 main access points, capturing the civilian population and systematically removing 4,969 residents across 780 families - representing about two percent of Hebron's 250,000 residents. Municipal and human rights data show that the sweeping forced displacement campaign heavily affects vulnerable populations, including 441 senior citizens, 336 infants under the age of two, 312 patients with chronic diseases, over 200 pregnant or lactating women, and 44 people with disabilities. The mayor of Hebron, Yosef al-Jabari, condemned the operation as a campaign of severe "collective punishment", noting that the number of displaced people more than doubled within a period of 48 hours, when military units expanded the seizure of houses and forced evacuations. The complete siege of Hebron coincides with a broader military escalation throughout the West Bank, where soldiers commandeered residential buildings for military outposts and restricted humanitarian movements. The ongoing structural isolation, destruction of civilian infrastructure and targeted mass displacement in Hebron serve as part of an overall strategy to break Palestinian territorial continuity and enforce long-term military control.

West Bank blockade displaces nearly 5,000 Palestinians as Israeli forces close in on Hebron According to detailed data analysis published by Al Jazeera, nearly 5,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes as Israel's punitive military siege on the southern West Bank city of Hebron entered its second week. Israeli forces locked down the city by sealing off all 10 main access points, capturing the civilian population and systematically removing 4,969 residents across 780 families - representing about two percent of Hebron's 250,000 residents. Municipal and human rights data show that the sweeping forced displacement campaign heavily affects vulnerable populations, including 441 senior citizens, 336 infants under the age of two, 312 patients with chronic diseases, over 200 pregnant or lactating women, and 44 people with disabilities. The mayor of Hebron, Yosef al-Jabari, condemned the operation as a campaign of severe "collective punishment", noting that the number of displaced people more than doubled within a period of 48 hours, when military units expanded the seizure of houses and forced evacuations. The complete siege of Hebron coincides with a broader military escalation throughout the West Bank, where soldiers commandeered residential buildings for military outposts and restricted humanitarian movements. The ongoing structural isolation, destruction of civilian infrastructure and targeted mass displacement in Hebron serve as part of an overall strategy to break Palestinian territorial continuity and enforce long-term military control.