Palestine weekly: West Bank under siege as Israelis go to the polls

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Israel sealed the West Bank, emptied parts of Hebron and tightened the compression connected Gaza arsenic its predetermination run wrapped up.

While Israelis spell to the polls this week successful 1 of the astir consequential elections successful years, galore Palestinians successful the West Bank person been confined to their homes oregon neighbourhoods arsenic a question of Israeli subject operations astir Hebron continues.

The West Bank metropolis has been successful a authorities of lockdown since 2 Palestinian gunmen opened occurrence astatine an service checkpoint astatine Hebron’s bluish entranceway connected Friday, sidesplitting 2 Israeli soldiers and wounding three. After the suspects were killed, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the isolation of Hebron and said troops would spell location to location successful the gunmen’s neighbourhood. “We volition enactment to destruct this place, to alteration it completely,” helium proclaimed.

Sieges astatine each scale

But Hebron is lone the astir salient of aggregate sieges happening astatine antithetic scales, with years-long efforts to strategically encircle Palestinian communities successful the West Bank present being employed to devastating effect:

Homes: The three-week siege by Israeli settlers of the household of Yusuf Shanaran successful Wadi al-Rakheem, Masafer Yatta continues, with the household incapable to permission oregon person assistance for days astatine a clip without service coordination, Shanaran told Al Jazeera connected Monday. In Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, colony Mayor Marwan Sabah said Mohammad al-Obaiyat’s 1954 location received a demolition bid with a November 11 deadline aft months with a gross blocking its road. Settlers person since been filmed attempting to interruption into the household home, which has been besieged for astir a month, with fewer supplies entering during that time.
A village: Madama, southbound of Nablus, is lone conscionable emerging from a two-week siege of its 4 entrances, with dense restrictions remaining astatine its just-opened bluish entrance, according to villagers. A kindergarten main determination told Al Jazeera she lifts children implicit the obstruction 1 by one.
A region: Twelve Masafer Yatta communities successful the confederate West Bank were chopped disconnected for respective days, with astir 50 teachers incapable to scope their schools, and Wafa reported that Bethlehem governorate’s roads were closed for respective days.
A territory: The Israeli service barred Palestinian workers from amerciable Israeli settlements connected Sunday and Monday and volition close each crossings connected predetermination day.

The lone Palestinians who tin ballot – Palestinian citizens of Israel – whitethorn look issues astatine the polls, too; Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu’s Likud enactment was preparing to situation results from Arab polling stations earlier a ballot had been cast.

Olive harvest attacks

This year’s olive harvest has drawn unprecedented levels of settler pogroms, theft and closed-military-zone orders. The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission has counted 482 attacks connected the harvest by Sunday crossed 9 governorates, Wafa reported.

At the aforesaid time, Israel released 9 of 10 settlers arrested pursuing past week’s attacks connected a overseas writer and diplomats. The attacks person continued undeterred. Wafa reported 17 attacks connected farmers and their spot connected Thursday, and the committee documented 21 successful 12 hours connected Friday. The past week’s harvest-related incidents autumn into a fistful of repeating patterns:

Theft of olives and instrumentality successful astatine slightest a twelve villages, including Sinjil, Silwad, Berin, Beit Iksa, al-Lubban Asharqiya, Kafr Malek, Ein Arik and Deir Ballut, according to Wafa and section reports. Near Immatin, astatine slightest 25 masked settlers sent 3 tractors and 2 trailers rolling down a hillside, destroying the instrumentality and olives connected board.
Assaults successful astatine slightest 15 places, among them Burin, wherever stones near 3 farmers with caput wounds; Ein Arik, wherever The Times of Israel reported a husbandman suffered fractures; and Beit Iksa, al-Lubban Asharqiya and Kafr Malek, wherever pickers were pepper-sprayed. Settlers fired unrecorded rounds astatine pickers successful Berin and Osarin, and smashed cars and trucks successful Marda, Wad Qaddoum and Sinjil, Wafa and section monitors reported.
Detentions and expulsions successful astatine slightest a twelve places. Fifteen farmers were detained successful as-Sawiya connected Sunday. In Beit Iksa, wherever the harvest had been coordinated with the Israeli Civil Administration, Mohammed al-Kiswani was pepper-sprayed and detained; settlers told farmers they would ne'er harvest “with oregon without coordination”. Land astatine Deir Jarir and Turmus Aya was declared a closed subject portion without orders shown, Ayed Jafry reported – and far-right influencers were brought to movie the expulsions for run content.
Damage to olive trees successful astatine slightest 10 locations. Settlers burned dozens of trees successful Burqa connected Friday, keeping Palestinian Civil Defence crews out, according to Wafa; trees were acceptable connected occurrence successful Immatin, Salem and Beit Furik; and a bulldozer uprooted hundreds successful Madama, according to villagers. Soldiers uprooted dozens much successful Deir Qaddis for a settler roadworthy and posted a announcement astatine al-Mughayyir ordering hundreds of trees uprooted and successful Khirbet Abu Falah for a “security buffer zone”, giving residents 24 hours to object, Jafry reported.
Arson. In Burqa, settlers acceptable occurrence connected Tuesday to a memorial to Palestinian residents killed and, an hr later, to the location of Jamal Bajes, a Palestinian-American – the 2nd arson astatine his location successful caller months, according to section reports. Local activistic networks reported a location was burned successful Deir Abu Mishal, and Wafa said settlers tried to acceptable different ablaze successful Burin nether service protection.

Those joining the harvests successful solidarity were targeted, too. United States Democratic legislature campaigner Brad Lander was among astir 80 volunteers detained adjacent Nahalin connected Wednesday and released with a “warning”; Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused him of “harvesting headlines”.

Gaza: Managed scarcity arsenic killings continue

The past week successful Gaza saw astatine slightest 37 much Palestinians killed arsenic Israel’s regular attacks continued. Monday’s regular study from the Gaza Ministry of Health unsocial recorded 11 deaths – 8 recently killed, 3 recovered from rubble – and 35 wounded, taking the toll since the October 2025 “ceasefire” to 1,559 killed and 5,608 wounded, with a cumulative toll of 74,555.

Among those killed this week:

Akram Yassin and his wife, Dina Abu Bakr, successful a onslaught connected their apartment down al-Shifa Hospital connected Tuesday.
Majdi Mohammad Fakhri Hassan, a child, changeable adjacent the Happy City edifice southbound of Khan Younis; Rafif Raed Lubad, 17, changeable successful the caput successful Jabalia; and Fatima Abu Laban, killed successful Tal al-Dhahab, northwest of Beit Lahiya connected Saturday, according to Wafa.
Three information guards – Sami Baroud, Ashraf Dahlan and Shadi Abu Ataya – astatine the Islamic University successful Gaza City on Sunday, aft an earlier onslaught wounded 7 students. Israel said it was targeting a Hamas operative.

For days, hunger worsened with crossings into Gaza shut: Flour stocks ran out, leaving 7 of 20 commercialized bakeries open, Abdul Nasser al-Ajrami of the bakers’ relation told Wafa, and a tray of eggs reached a terms of 60 shekels ($19.50).

The unit began to easiness somewhat connected the evening of October 23, arsenic Israel told traders that commercialized goods would resume and an Egyptian committee delivered flour, Mohammad Abu Warda of the backstage sector’s exigency committee said.

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