{"id":"1792883973798-mix-segment","slug":"israeli-demolitions-upend-hebron","title":"Israeli demolitions upend Hebron","summary":"On Friday, two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others at a checkpoint outside Hebron, before being shot dead themselves. In response, Israeli forces sealed off the city of 200,000 residents and began demolishing homes, businesses, and industrial sites in the Ein Deir Baha and Farsh al-Hawa neighbourhoods. The Israeli Defence Minister said about 2,000 residents had been displaced; human rights group B'Tselem estimated around 240 families were forced from their homes on Friday and Saturday. Netanyahu said the military would \"destroy\" the neighbourhoods where the attackers came from, and announced plans for the largest military operation in the West Bank since 1967. Israel's election is four days away.\n\nNetanyahu – who has built his campaign on a security platform – cancelled campaign events and travelled to Hebron wearing protective armour, posting video from the scene. Palestinian officials and the mayor of Hebron, Youssef al-Jaabari, said the operation was \"driven by the elections,\" arguing Netanyahu is appealing to far-right and settler voters. The demolitions follow a longstanding Israeli practice of demolishing homes of Palestinians suspected of attacks, which rights groups including B'Tselem criticise as collective punishment.\n\nIsraeli forces have demolished Palestinian homes and businesses in Hebron, displacing hundreds of families, following Friday's killing of two Israeli soldiers by two Palestinian gunmen. The operation comes days before Israel's October 27 election. This is a question/prompt for a video report, not a factual claim requiring verification.\n\nA British woman died after trying to rescue her sons who were swept away at sea in the Bahamas, according to a report citing her partner Nathan Gregory.","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T23:19:33.798Z","channel":{"id":"mix","name":"Oncast Mix","language":"en"},"show":"Prime Time","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Israeli forces have demolished Palestinian homes and businesses in Hebron, displacing hundreds of families, following Friday's killing of two Israeli soldiers by two Palestinian gunmen. The operation comes days before Israel's October 27 election. This is a question/prompt for a video report, not a factual claim requiring verification.\nSource: BBC POST news:5c1b93d236b3898f: NOCLAIM N/A (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqd09k1k7532o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)\n\nTRUE: A British woman died after trying to rescue her sons who were swept away at sea in the Bahamas, according to a report citing her partner Nathan Gregory.\nSource: BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm86z5n0yvy6o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Israeli forces have demolished Palestinian homes and businesses in Hebron, displacing hundreds of families, following Friday's killing of two Israeli soldiers by two Palestinian gunmen. The operation comes days before Israel's October 27 election. 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Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Eric","text":"The numbers coming out of Hebron this weekend are staggering — hundreds of families displaced in two days."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"The BBC is reporting Israeli forces sealed off the whole city. Two hundred thousand people."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Right, and this follows the killing of two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint by two Palestinian gunmen on Friday."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"So the response has been demolitions. Homes, businesses, industrial sites in the neighborhoods where the attackers came from."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Netanyahu posted video from the scene in a flak jacket and said the military would — quote — destroy those neighborhoods."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Nothing subtle about that timing."},{"host":"Eric","text":"What do you mean?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Israel votes in four days. He cancelled campaign events for this. The mayor of Hebron called it driven by the elections."},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's the easy accusation. But two soldiers were killed. A government has to respond."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Of course. But the human rights group B'Tselem put it around two hundred forty families forced out on Friday and Saturday alone."},{"host":"Eric","text":"And you think this is about votes, not security?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"I think the security operation is real. I also think Netanyahu knows exactly how this looks to his right-wing base four days out."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Come on. If he did nothing, the same critics would say he's weak on terror."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"There's a long way between doing nothing and the largest West Bank operation since 1967."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Which is his actual policy. He said it plainly. This isn't some election stunt — he's been consistent on demolitions for years."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Consistent, yes. Convenient this week, also yes. Both things can be true."},{"host":"Eric","text":"So what's your alternative? Let the attacks stand?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"No. But collective punishment — sealing a city of two hundred thousand, bulldozing homes of people who may have had nothing to do with it — that's not justice either."},{"host":"Eric","text":"It's deterrence. That's how Israel has always answered attacks like this."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And the families who live there pay for it. Some of them children."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Tough world. The Palestinian Authority called for urgent international action. What does that even mean, in practice?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"It means they have no leverage. So the bulldozers keep running and the election gets closer."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I'll say this: whatever the politics, the reality on the ground is that Israel lost two soldiers and responded with overwhelming force. That's the story."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And the other story is two hundred forty families with nowhere to go tonight."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Yeah. That's the part that doesn't make the campaign ad."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Speaking of fires, this is strange: Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat in Bavaria is burning."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Wait, the mountaintop tea house? That place is a tourist site now."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"The BBC says a man was detained — a thirty-three-year-old German. No word on the cause yet."},{"host":"Eric","text":"That place survived the war intact. What, someone gets nostalgic and decides to torch it?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Could be anything. The authorities haven't said arson, haven't said accident. Just that there was a fire and an arrest."},{"host":"Eric","text":"We'll wait for the German police report. But that's a weird one."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And Brazil picks a president tomorrow, by the way."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Right. Two very different candidates, and the result matters for the whole region."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"The BBC had a good piece from Rio today. If you missed it, the basics: it's a runoff."},{"host":"Eric","text":"And one more story before we move on — a British woman died trying to save her sons in the Bahamas."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"That's just awful. Her partner Nathan Gregory said the loss is, quote, unimaginable for our family."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Swimming out to rescue your kids. Most of us would do the same without a second's thought."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"No details yet on how the boys are or whether they survived. Just a family shattered on a holiday."},{"host":"Eric","text":"We'll keep an eye on that one. But man, what a gut punch."}]}