{"id":658187,"date":"2026-10-27T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:12:10","slug":"west-bank-hebron-crackdown-displaces-thousands-turk-warns-of-ethnic-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658187\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank: Hebron crackdown displaces thousands, T\u00fcrk warns of ethnic cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN aid coordination office, OCHA<\/a>, said aid partners are supporting local authorities in Hebron to meet the needs of more than 3,000 people evacuated by Israeli forces since Friday.<\/p>\n

Mr. T\u00fcrk said the operation had demolished homes and commercial property, and deprived residents of the ability to move freely.<\/p>\n

The operation began after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint near Hebron on Friday, killing two soldiers and wounding three others. Both gunmen were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sweeping steps taken raise grave concerns of unnecessary and disproportionate use of force \u2013 which must end,\u201d Mr. T\u00fcrk said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Punishment \u2018designed to instil fear\u2019<\/p>\n

The Israeli lockdown is confining many people to their homes and immediate neighbourhoods, the UN rights chief said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeclarations by senior Israeli Government officials indicate that the measures implemented are punitive in nature and designed to instil fear. This is unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He called for all those displaced to be allowed to return home, and for Israel to ensure compensation and reparation for unlawful evictions and demolitions, and the displacement they caused.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollective punishment is a grave violation of international law,\u201d he warned. \u201cThreats to empty and erase entire neighbourhoods also raise serious concerns of ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Record year of settler attacks<\/p>\n

OCHA said the UN and its partners are responding to new displacement in both Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Settler attacks continued across the West Bank over the weekend, disrupting the olive harvest.<\/p>\n

More than 2,000 settler attacks causing casualties or property damage have been recorded since the start of 2026 \u2013 more than in any previous year on record, according to OCHA.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 WFP\/Maxime Le Lijour
\n A young girl sits outside her tent in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Arson attacks in Gaza<\/p>\n

In Gaza, humanitarian partners warn that Palestinian families in areas along the so-called \u201cyellow line\u201d continue to face reported arson attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent days, new [yellow] blocks have been observed in Ash Shuja\u2019iyyeh and parts of Deir al Balah,\u201d OCHA said in its latest situation report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Friday, a UN site in Deir al Balah has come under fire. There have also been three separate shooting incidents in the vicinity of three UN schools and near a UN convoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

UN teams just visited the Ash Shuja\u2019iyyeh area of Gaza City, where tents were set on fire Sunday night, identifying at least nine households who lost their shelters. This follows another fire that was instigated at the site last week, triggering the displacement of about 200 families.<\/p>\n

Israel \u2018committed war crimes\u2019<\/p>\n

Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians and continues to commit genocide in Gaza, independent UN human rights investigators said in a new report<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

The crimes against humanity include extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to the Independent International Commission of Inquiry<\/a> on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. Its latest report<\/a> has been presented to the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n

The commission was established by the UN Human Rights Council<\/a> in 2021. It is made up of independent experts who are not UN staff and are not paid for their work.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 UNRWA
\n Destruction in northern Gaza in 2024. (file)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intentional killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians and destruction of homes in the West Bank combined with Israel\u2019s persistent denial of responsibility form part of a broader strategy to exterminate and displace Palestinians and impose conditions of life that are unliveable,\u201d said Srinivasan Muralidhar, commission chair.<\/p>\n

He said Israel\u2019s expansion of territorial control in Gaza \u201ccontinues to result in the killing and harming of Palestinian civilians who approach or cross the \u201cyellow line\u201d \u2013 the line Israeli forces withdrew to under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

The investigators also found that in Gaza, \u201cIsraeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts even after the so-called ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel rejected the findings. Its permanent mission in Geneva said the report was \u201cyet another manifestation of its misinformation campaign to demonise the State of Israel and portray its very existence as criminal\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said aid partners are supporting local authorities in Hebron to meet the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-658187","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\/658187","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=658187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}