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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">Israeli army imposes siege on Hebron after double car bombing attack</h1><p class="gmail-">Palestinian
resistance fighters attacked illegal Jewish settlements near Hebron
with two car bombs on Friday, injuring one high-ranking Israeli army
officer</p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span>AUG 31, 2024 -<font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-imposes-siege-on-hebron-after-double-car-bombing-attack">https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-imposes-siege-on-hebron-after-double-car-bombing-attack</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/33197886-6775-11ef-ac00-00163e02c055.jpeg" alt="" width="454" height="255" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span>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)</span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(15,20,25)">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.</span></p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Israeli media </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-killed-2-terrorists-as-car-bombs-detonate-in-west-bank-attacks-3-hurt/"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">reported</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">
that two Palestinians were killed on Friday night while carrying out
two separate operations on the settlements in the Gush Etzion area.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">A short while later, the attacker's car exploded due to a bomb planted in it.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p><p style="margin-left:0px">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.</p><p style="margin-left:0px">Following the incidents, the Israeli army blew up part of Muhammad Marqa's family home in the Abu Rumman area of Hebron. </p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p>“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. </p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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."</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The Israeli army </span><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26615"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">launched its biggest operation</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">
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.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Three Palestinian resistance fighters were assassinated in an</span><a href="https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/148659"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)"> Israeli airstrike</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">
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. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">"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."</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">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.</span></p></span></div></div></div></div>
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