HEBRON, September 2, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists on Tuesday evening took over a Palestinian-owned house in the Old City of Hebron, according to local sources.

They said that dozens of colonists, protected by the occupying forces, seized a house belonging to the Naser family close to the Old City, and sealed off several streets, including the Shalala street.

The city of Hebron, which houses the Ibrahimi Mosque, is home to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 800 notoriously aggressive Israeli colonists who live in compounds heavily guarded by about 1,500 Israeli troops.

Israel has expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from 800 heavily guarded colonists, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered their deployment.

Thirty-one years ago, Israeli colonist Baruch Goldstein broke into the Ibrahimi Mosque and opened fire at Palestinian Muslim worshippers, killing 29. Four Palestinians were killed on the same day in the clashes that broke out around the Mosque in response to the massacre.

In the aftermath, the mosque was divided into two parts, with the larger part turned into a synagogue, while heavy scrutiny was imposed on the Palestinians and areas were closed completely to them, including an important market and the main street, Shuhada Street.

K.F.