Ramallah, October 26 (Petra) For the fourth consecutive day,
Israeli occupation forces have continued their military campaign in
Hebron Governorate in the southern occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces escalated incursions, deploying military
reinforcements, imposing closures, seizing Palestinian-owned vehicles
and assaulting civilians.

According to the Support and Relief Committee in Hebron, the number
of Palestinians displaced from the city has risen to approximately
3,043.

In a statement, the Hebron Municipality reported that additional
Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by armored military vehicles,
entered the city late Sunday night through the Farsh al-Hawa
entrance.

At the same time, forces raided the southern area near Jabal Karbaj,
while further military reinforcements and large trucks arrived in the
al-Jalda area.

The municipality added that occupation forces had divided a street in
the Jabal al-Rahma neighbourhood into sections designated separately
for Palestinians and settlers, severely restricting local residents’
movement.

Occupation forces also raided the Jabal al-Ja’bari area, near the
Diwan al-Ja’bari in Hebron’s Wadi al-Qata’ district and broke into
several homes.

Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said occupation forces had deliberately
destroyed the contents of homes, terrorised residents, established
field interrogation centers and arrested 71 local residents.

He added that the forces were subjecting the governorate’s population
of nearly one million to abuse and opening fire on civilian vehicles.

In a statement issued Monday, Dudin reported that 450 families had
been forcibly displaced, with more than 3,043 Palestinians uprooted
from the areas of Deir Bahha and al-Jalda.

He added that occupation forces had searched more than 500 homes and
effectively fragmented the governorate by establishing 128 closed
gates and 120 military checkpoints.

In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli occupation authorities forced Hanan
al-Rajabi, a Jerusalemite woman, to demolish her own home in Beit
Hanina, north of the city, on the grounds that it had been built
without a permit.

According to a statement by the Jerusalem Governorate, the demolition
left al-Rajabi, her husband and their five children homeless.

Meanwhile, occupation forces fired tear gas canisters from behind the
separation and expansion wall toward Airport Street, near Qalandia
refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

The demolition in Beit Hanina comes as Israeli occupation authorities
continue to target Palestinian homes and structures in occupied
Jerusalem over alleged violations of building permit requirements,
while imposing strict restrictions on Palestinian construction and
urban expansion.

//Petra// AK