Israel's 'Large-Scale' Hebron Raid: Business as Usual for the Occupation
📰 THE STORY: Al Jazeera reports an Israeli military raid in Hebron, occupied West Bank, deploying armored vehicles and imposing a curfew, shutting down neighborhoods. The narrative focuses on the immediate military action. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: Hebron, a city with immense historical and religious significance, has been under brutal Israeli military occupation since
1967. The city center is divided into H1 (Palestinian Authority control, 80%) and H2 (Israeli military control, 20%, housing a few hundred Israeli settlers among 30,000 Palestinians). However, the Israeli military has established checkpoints, restricted Palestinian movement, and enabled aggressive settler expansion, particularly since the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque massacre by Baruch Goldstein, after
which Palestinians faced further restrictions while settlers were granted increased protection and territorial control. These raids are tools for ethnic cleansing, not security. Double Standard: Imagine any other military 'imposing a curfew and shutting down neighborhoods' in a city it occupies. This would be universally condemned as a human rights violation and an act of oppression. Yet, when
Israel does it in the 'occupied West Bank,' it's often framed as a 'security operation' or a 'deterrent action,' rather than a continuous act of belligerent occupation and collective punishment. The international community's silence, especially from Western powers, stands in stark contrast to their reactions to similar actions by non-allied states. Follow the Money: The military hardware used in