Israeli forces intensify ‘collective punishment’ in occupied West Bank

Well, Hebron is sealed off. Seven entrances to the district are closed. Only one or two may allow some pedestrian traffic at times, and it's extremely unpredictable. The Hebron municipality has told us that up to half of the neighborhood targeted overnight by Israeli soldiers in Hebron has been forcibly displaced. At least 200 families are now forced to be outside of their homes. The municipality has set up temporary shelters, but really nobody knows how long this is going to last. The Israeli army is using some of the homes that they have depopulated as temporary military outposts, raising the flag, the Israeli flag there, and possibly using them for interrogations later on. Of course, we're judging by the pattern that we saw in Tulkarem and in Jenin, which is exactly what the Israeli prime minister told us the Israeli army would do. They would use what he described as the successful model in those two cities of depopulating entire areas, demolishing entire neighborhoods and re-engineering the area. He said that the area in Hebron would change permanently following that attack. And right now, the residents of Hebron are bracing for the worst.