Israeli troops fired a stun grenade to disperse Palestinian men, women, and children protesting military demolitions in Hebron

A landlocked territory between Jordan and Israel, home to around three million Palestinians and governed in part by the Palestinian Authority. Occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War, it remains a central flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, shaped by ongoing settlement expansion, military operations, and competing claims to statehood.

Israeli forces have carried out mass demolitions of Palestinian communities in the West Bank, including the destruction of Khirbet al-Tabban, displacing residents from long-established villages. Demolitions are frequently justified on the grounds of military firing-zone designations or the absence of Israeli-issued building permits, which Palestinian residents and rights groups say are made effectively unattainable by the Israeli planning system. Humanitarian organisations warn that entire communities, including in the Masafer Yatta area, face forcible transfer.

Debates about how police should handle demonstrations: crowd-control weapons, mass arrests, protest bans and accountability for officers.