{"id":313276,"date":"2026-10-24T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313276\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:52:12","slug":"israel-imposes-closures-across-west-bank-city-after-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313276\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel imposes closures across West Bank city after attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxis piled up behind gates controlled by Israel\u2019s military outside Hebron waiting for Palestinians forced to cross on foot. All gates leading in and out of the city were impassable by car, according to Basma Radio, a crowdsourced Telegram channel Palestinians use to monitor checkpoints and road closures.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian news outlet WAFA said on Saturday that Israeli troops forced dozens of residents to evacuate their homes in some neighbourhoods of Hebron and closed all entrances and roads leading into the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fb94a4cc59ec44fb976aa2f2fd9897ac.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli flags hang from a house belonging to Palestinian residents in Hebron\" data-title=\"Israel Palestinians\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved\" data-credit=\"Mahmoud Illean\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\"  \/>Israeli flags hang from a house belonging to Palestinian residents during an Israeli army operation in Hebron on Saturday (Mahmoud Illean\/AP)<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s army did not respond to questions about Saturday\u2019s evacuations. On Friday, it said that in response to the killing of two soldiers and wounding of others, its forces had begun \u201cconducting precise, targeted and thorough searches\u201d in the area of Hebron from which the two gunmen had operated.<\/p>\n<p>Such closures in the West Bank have grown increasingly common, particularly around Hebron. They have disrupted Palestinians\u2019 ability to travel to work, attend school and move between villages.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, Reem Al Jiyawi waited behind a closed gate trying to take her 11-year-old daughter to a cancer-related doctor\u2019s appointment at a hospital in Dura.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to drive directly from her village west of Hebron, her daughter was dropped off at the gate so she could cross on foot and take a shared taxi on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taxis piled up behind gates controlled by Israel\u2019s military outside Hebron waiting for Palestinians forced to cross on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-313276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}