[News] Israeli army imposes siege on Hebron after double car bombing attack

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 Israeli army imposes siege on Hebron after double car bombing attack

Palestinian resistance fighters attacked illegal Jewish settlements near
Hebron with two car bombs on Friday, injuring one high-ranking Israeli army
officer

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

AUG 31, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-imposes-siege-on-hebron-after-double-car-bombing-attack
IDF troops examine the wreckage of a car bomb in the West Bank settlement
of Karmei Tzur, early August 31, 2024. (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)

The Israeli army has imposed a siege on the city of Hebron in the occupied
West Bank after Palestinian resistance fighters carried out car bomb
attacks against illegal Jewish settlements in the area late on 30 August.

In response to the attack, the army temporarily closed the Ibrahimi Mosque
and restricted worshipers from entering, invaded homes, and arrested many
people indiscriminately. A video appeared on social media showing the
Israeli army executing an unarmed Palestinian in the area.

Israeli media reported
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-killed-2-terrorists-as-car-bombs-detonate-in-west-bank-attacks-3-hurt/>
that two Palestinians were killed on Friday night while carrying out two
separate operations on the settlements in the Gush Etzion area.

In the first incident, a car exploded at a gas station near the Gush Etzion
junction. Israeli soldiers dispatched to the scene killed a Palestinian
fighter who had arrived in the vehicle, and who attempted to attack them,
the military said.

In the second incident, a Palestinian resistance fighter rammed a car
through the entrance to the nearby settlement of Karmei Tzur. Israeli
troops opened fire at the attacker. A member of the settlement's local
security team used his own car to crash into him and kill him.

A short while later, the attacker's car exploded due to a bomb planted in
it.

The commander of the Israeli army's Etzion Regional Brigade, Col. Gal Rich,
was wounded by gunfire in the attack at the gas station, a military source
said.

The General Authority of Civil Affairs informed the Palestinian Ministry of
Health of the deaths of Muhammad Ihsan Yaqin Marqa and Zahdi Nidal Abu
Afifa – the men who carried out the double operation – in the north of the
city of Hebron.

Following the incidents, the Israeli army blew up part of Muhammad Marqa's
family home in the Abu Rumman area of Hebron.

“Security forces continue to search the village of Karmi Tzur to rule out
the suspicion of the presence of additional terrorists there,” the army
spokesperson added.

Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions issued statements on 31
August in support of the double operation. “The heroic double operation
that took place tonight near the Gush Etzion and the Karmei Tzur
settlements, north of Al-Khalil [Hebron], sends a clear message that the
resistance will remain strong, persistent and ongoing as long as the brutal
occupation and its aggression against our people and our land continue," a
statement issued by Hamas said.

The statement added, "This qualitative operation carries symbolic
significance due to its location in Khalil al-Rahman in the southern West
Bank, and its timing, as it comes at a critical moment when we are
witnessing the escalation of the occupation's aggression against the
northern West Bank governorates, and its massacres and genocide in the Gaza
Strip."

The Israeli army launched its biggest operation
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26615> in the occupied West Bank in over
two decades early on 28 August, raiding Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas with
hundreds of troops and launching airstrikes on the three cities, considered
major hotbeds of resistance in the territory.

The operation has focused mainly on Jenin and Tulkarem, but fighting is
taking place in a number of other cities and areas of the northern West
Bank.

Three Palestinian resistance fighters were assassinated in an Israeli
airstrike <https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/148659> near Jenin on 30
August, coinciding with a massive Israeli army operation across the
occupied territory and fierce clashes within its refugee camps and streets.

In its statement Saturday, Hamas linked events in Gaza to events in the
West Bank and called for Palestinians to be united in both parts of
Palestine.

"This operation reaffirms to the occupation that it cannot isolate any part
of the homeland, and that the heroic reservoir of our people and resistance
in the West Bank will surprise the occupation at all times and places."

Israel's war on Hamas and the people of Gaza is now reaching its eleventh
month. Israeli troops and bombs have killed over 40,000 Palestinians in
Gaza, the majority women and children.
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