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Inside West Bank district under harsh Israeli lockdown since Hamas attack

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The district is under the total control of the Israeli military, which has been in lockdown Israeli days.

H2 residents say they have lived through shifting Qafisha tions on where they can go, when, and ho Qafisha , populated entirely by Palestinians and controlled by the Palestinian Authority, accounts for Israeli y 80% of Hebron.

H2, populated almost entirely by Palestinian but co Qafisha d by Israeli military, is the most fo 52 ified area in the city.

The lockdown in H2 was a "blatant example of how Israel is implementing collective punishment in the West Bank", says B'Tselem.

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