Israel seals West Bank crossings until after Tuesday's election as troops raid 400 sites and arrest 40 Palestinians
Two gunmen shot dead two Israeli soldiers and wounded three at a checkpoint, the attack Benjamin Netanyahu cited as justification for sealing West Bank crossings and launching strikes across more than 400 locations in…
More than 2,200 people in Hebron, including nearly 200 children, have been forced from their homes, the municipality says. Every entrance to the city remains sealed. Hebron Mayor Yousef Zuhair Al-Jabari said: 'People cannot reach or enter the city, and they cannot leave it.' The operation follows Friday's checkpoint attack, in which two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers.
Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the attack site that Israel would 'act to destroy this place'.
Soldiers sprayed black crosses on Palestinian houses before bulldozers flattened whole blocks.
Tuesday's vote is widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu after three years of war.
