“Around 12:30 at night, the Israeli army vehicles were at al-Jalda Square,” one Hebron resident told Al Jazeera.
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resident → tell → Jazeera
“They told us to leave our homes.
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They → tell → homes
We asked until when, and they said until further notice.
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they → ask → notice
We left with the clothes on our backs.”
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We → leave → backs
Hours earlier on October 23, two Israeli soldiers had been killed by armed Palestinian men at a checkpoint near the city.
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soldiers → kill → city
Hebron, the occupied West Bank’s largest city, has been under Israeli siege ever since, with restrictions extending across a governorate of about 800,000 Palestinians.
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restrictions → extend → Palestinians
A black X now marks the homes from which families have been forcibly expelled.
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families → mark → which
Soldiers have moved into others, turning them into military outposts.
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Soldiers → move → outposts
In just over a week, nearly 5,000 Palestinians have been displaced, according to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, which called the measures collective punishment in violation of international law.
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which → displace → law
The current operation builds on years of demolitions.
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operation → build → demolitions
From 2009 up until the siege began on October 23, Israeli forces demolished 2,491 buildings and displaced 3,534 Palestinians in the Hebron governorate, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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forces → begin → Affairs
Across Area C and occupied East Jerusalem, the monthly average of demolitions since 2024 has been at least double that of the preceding 15 years.
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average → occupy → years
Many demolitions are linked to Israel’s restrictive permit system.
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demolitions → link → system
Palestinians struggle to obtain Israeli-issued building permits, leaving structures built without them vulnerable to demolition.
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Palestinians → struggle → demolition
In Masafer Yatta, a cluster of 13 communities in the South Hebron Hills, Israeli authorities have demolished about 400 structures in 15 years, displacing 969 Palestinians.
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authorities → demolish → Palestinians
Nearly half were demolished since January 2025.
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half → demolish → January
UNRWA’s West Bank director, Roland Friedrich, said the scenes in Hebron carry “alarming echoes” of the mass displacement in the northern occupied West Bank in early 2025, when Israeli military operations emptied the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps.
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operations → say → camps
More than 34,000 Palestinian refugees from the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps remain displaced, according to UNRWA, more than a year after Israel’s “Iron Wall” operation began in January 2025.
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operation → remain → January
The operation destroyed more than half of the camps’ residential buildings.
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operation → destroy → buildings
OCHA’s demolition records capture only a fraction of that destruction.
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records → capture → destruction
Between 2009 and October 2026, the agency recorded 1,399 buildings demolished in the Jenin and Tulkarem governorates, displacing 4,139 people.
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agency → record → people
Those records mainly track demolitions carried out for lack of permits or as punishment, not buildings destroyed during military raids.
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records → track → raids
An investigation by the research group Forensic Architecture found evidence of deliberate, systematic destruction.
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investigation → find → destruction
Researchers verified more than 200 incidents involving the destruction of buildings and streets across four refugee camps, using armoured bulldozers, controlled demolitions and air attacks.
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Researchers → verify → bulldozers
They found that roads were widened through homes and gardens to create routes for military vehicles.
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roads → find → vehicles
The group concluded that Israel was applying tactics in the occupied West Bank similar to those it had used in Gaza.
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it → conclude → Gaza
In February 2025, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Tulkarem and Jenin would come to resemble Jabalia and Shujayea, two of Gaza’s most devastated areas.
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Tulkarem → say → areas
The raids have not stopped.
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raids → stop → ?
Last week, Israeli forces detained four Palestinians in Tulkarem, and in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, troops converted several homes into military barracks, as they have in Hebron.
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they → detain → Hebron
Near Jenin, the army has ordered the residents of an entire village to leave permanently.
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army → order → village
“I have sheep and cows.
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I → have → sheep
Our entire lives are tied to this land,” said farmer Jabri Yahya.
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Yahya → tie → land
“Last year they uprooted our olive trees, and this year they want to force us to leave.
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they → uproot → us
We don’t know where to go.”
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We → know → ?
By June 16, 2026, an estimated 201,290 structures had been damaged or destroyed, about 82 percent of all structures in the Strip, according to the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT).
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structures → damage → Centre
Many families now shelter in tents, makeshift structures or damaged buildings, often without reliable water or sanitation.
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families → shelter → water
Another winter brings new risks.
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winter → bring → risks
Mohammed al-Jamal, 60, has been displaced several times since he fled his home in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood.
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he → displace → neighbourhood
He now shares a worn-out tent on the beach with about 30 members of his extended family, patching it before every storm because they cannot afford a new tarpaulin.
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they → share → tarpaulin
“We are living in the street, not in houses that protect us,” he said.
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he → live → us
…and 9 more, not listed.
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