Al Jazeera:
Israeli forces have raided towns, detaining dozens of Palestinians, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced ordering a full lockdown of the occupied West Bank following an attack in the city of Hebron that killed two Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces raided at least 15 towns in the northern West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, Al Jazeera correspondents reported on Saturday.
The military raids targeted several northern cities and towns, including Nablus, Jenin, Tubas and Qalqilya.
In Nablus, Israeli forces carried out arrests and raided Palestinian homes in the villages of Jalud and Qaryut. Arrests were also reported in Arrabeh and Burqin, near Jenin, while Israeli forces entered Tubas and the nearby town of Aqqaba.
In the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli bulldozers demolished a three-storey building in Hebron, with families given five minutes to collect their belongings. Israeli forces also ordered hundreds of Palestinian families to forcibly evacuate their homes in the Ein Deir Bahha area of Hebron and its surroundings.
Israeli troops also surrounded the home of one of the suspects in the shooting attack that killed two Israeli soldiers in Hebron, while carrying out raids in the city’s al-Jalda neighbourhood.
The Israeli army said late on Friday that its forces began an operation in Hebron that would last “for several days”, in addition to operations by other forces in “dozens” of areas across the West Bank.
Further east, Israeli forces entered Jericho and the nearby Aqabat Jabr refugee camp.
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