Overview
- Large forces deployed with armored vehicles, bulldozers and tracked armor, with on-the-ground reports describing a lockdown across southern Hebron.
- Troops installed new metal gates and blocked key roads, including closing the Tariq bin Ziyad roundabout with concrete blocks and earth mounds.
- Palestinian news agency Wafa reported at least seven people detained during home raids, including a 13-year-old boy.
- The IDF says the operation will continue for several days and includes efforts to seize illegal weapons.
- The raid is unfolding near the Ibrahimi Mosque after recent Israeli administrative moves at the site, and reporting links it to earlier West Bank operations in Jenin and Tulkarm that entrenched military control.