Displaced in Hebron: Picking up pieces after Israeli siege

Nour al-Natsha and his family returned home in Hebron after 10 days of displacement caused by an Israeli military operation in the al-Jalada neighbourhood. Israeli forces ordered residents to leave on October 24, after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers nearby the previous day; the family had just 20 minutes to take money, gold and important documents. When the 35-year-old orthopaedic surgeon returned on Monday morning, he found the house ransacked, belongings missing and his young daughter’s pet bird gone. Families and neighbours had waited near the neighbourhood before returning to temporary accommodation, then came back after the Israeli withdrawal was confirmed.