Key Facts

• Al Jazeera's analysis of municipal and human rights data put the number of displaced people at 4,969, from 780 families.
• The displaced group includes 441 elderly people, 336 infants under two, 312 people with chronic illnesses, more than 200 pregnant or nursing women, and 44 people with disabilities.
• The 10 closed entrances surround Hebron, with closures reported to the north, northeast, northwest, east, and south.
• The military operation began on October 23, after two Palestinians killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three others; Israeli forces killed the two attackers.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered Hebron closed and called for a full lockdown across the occupied West Bank; Defence Minister Israel Katz said residents would not return until Hamas infrastructure was dismantled.
• The Israeli army said the operation aims to thwart terrorism through searches, arrests, and weapons seizures; Ynet reported that the army described weapons-search results as limited and cited legal difficulties with prolonged displacement.
• The municipality said the targeted eviction area covers 0.35 square kilometres and houses more than 500 families; it classified 266 tracked families' current locations as unsafe.
• In Farsh al-Hawa, Israeli forces demolished a three-apartment building, targeted local businesses, and bulldozed about 7,000 square metres of land, according to the article.