Hebron displacement passes 3,000 as UN rights chief warns of collective punishment
Volker Türk called for everyone forced from the Jalda and Ein Deir Baha neighbourhoods to be allowed home, as Palestinian figures put the number displaced near 4,000.
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Hebron
The southern West Bank’s largest city, under a military operation since 24 October.
The Old City of Hebron, 2018. Photo: Obada A Zatari, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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