{"id":655347,"date":"2026-10-24T01:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655347\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:56:15","slug":"israel-orders-west-bank-lockdown-after-hebron-shooting-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655347\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel orders West Bank lockdown after Hebron shooting attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet domestic security service issued a joint statement later on Friday announcing the launch of a counter-terrorism operation in the Hebron area that was an extension of security operations started earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe forces have begun conducting precise, targeted and thorough searches throughout the area to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure and weapons, while questioning suspects,\u201d the IDF and Shin Bet said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe operation is targeted and limited to the area from which the terrorists operated, and is expected to continue for several days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents living in the area will be able to exit through three designated checkpoints after questioning and may be referred for further questioning, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The military would also be \u201cdemolishing illegal structures that could pose a security threat at the site of the encounter,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n

There has been a recent surge in Israeli settler violence and military activity in the West Bank centered on the start of the olive harvesting season, with Palestinians, activists and American journalists among those attacked and detained. Netanyahu has previously blamed<\/a> \u201ca handful of young juvenile delinquents\u201d for instances of settler violence.<\/p>\n

In his comments Friday, Netanyahu praised settlers in the West Bank as \u201cheroic,\u201d saying they were \u201can example to the people of Israel and to the State of Israel.\u201d <\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s office said it instructed the IDF to \u201cimpose a closure\u201d on Hebron and to prepare for a \u201cfull lockdown\u201d across the entire West Bank starting Friday. It gave no further details on the planned closure of the territory. <\/p>\n

In comments following an emergency meeting with his security cabinet and top military and security officials, Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the shooting and said the militant group was \u201cplanning a major attack aimed at murdering innocent civilians.\u201d <\/p>\n

He cited \u201clarge quantities of weapons and ammunition discovered,\u201d but did not provide further details on the attack. He did not say whether the injured included soldiers or civilians. <\/p>\n

The order to lock down the West Bank came hours after the Israeli military said it had killed two people after a shooting attack in which at least five people were initially reported injured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet domestic security service issued a joint statement later on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-655347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}