Palestinians Return to Ruined Hebron Homes After Israel’s 10-Day Siege

About 3,300 Palestinians have returned to their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank after more than a week of forced displacement. Ein Deir Bahha and al-Jalda endured a 10-day Israeli military operation following the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the city on October 23; two Palestinian suspects were also killed. Residents returning home found demolitions, vandalism and destroyed belongings. Fahd Ahmaro, whose family had been scattered across four Hebron neighbourhoods, described their expulsion as an “unbearable hell.”