Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has directed the security forces to impose a siege on the city of Hebron and to close the West Bank entirely, in a broad security measure targeting the Palestinian city. At the same time, the Israeli army announced that its forces had imposed a siege on Hebron and begun a wide offensive military operation there, without stating in the available text details on the size of the participating forces, the objectives of the operation, or an initial casualty toll.
Amid the escalation, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for launching a comprehensive military operation in the West Bank aimed at dismantling the Palestinian Authority, collecting weapons and killing those he described as "saboteurs." Al-Arabi TV reported that occupation forces raided the homes of the perpetrators of an operation in the city of Hebron, while Hamas said that the Hebron operation comes within the framework of the natural and legitimate response to the occupation's ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.
On the ground, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that a person was wounded by occupation forces' bullets after they opened heavy fire on a car in the town of Dura, south of Hebron. In another incident, three bullets were recorded on a Palestinian car, amid accusations that an Israeli official tampered with evidence.
Politically, the Turkish Foreign Minister affirmed that trust in the global order has been shaken, citing the massacres in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank. In Gaza, a report addressed residents' suffering from the collapse of homes due to demolition operations alongside shelling, amid deteriorating humanitarian conditions facing civilians in the Strip.