HEBRON, October 8, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday blocked the military checkpoint at the entrance of a-Shuhada Street in the Old City of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the gun-toting soldiers sealed off the checkpoint, denying Palestinians access to their houses in Tal Rumeida neighborhood and on the a-Shuhada Street.
He added that the checkpoint was sealed off to facilitate an encroachment by Israeli colonists onto Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi Mosque and several neighborhoods of Hebron.
Earlier today, the occupying forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque to Palestinians until Thursday evening, under the pretext of Jewish holidays.
They have tightened military measures around the mosque and in the Old City, sealing off all checkpoints and electronic gates leading to the mosque and deploying at all entrances to secure colonists' access to the city and archaeological sites under the pretext of celebrating Jewish holidays.
The occupying forces have been imposing a curfew for the third consecutive day on the Jaber, Salaymeh, Ghaith, and Wadi al-Hussein neighborhoods adjacent to the Kiryat Arba colony, built on Palestinian land and property, east of Hebron.
Earlier today, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu, among others, stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque and performed dances in its courtyards, undr the pretext of celebrating the second day of what is called the “Feast of Tabernacles”.
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.
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