Originally Posted by Giorgio

beleserti, there is a difference between defending one's country from terrorist attacks and pursuing a policy of oppression, pacification and retaliation on a population as a whole. The reprisals which the IDF carries out very often target not military targets, but the communities that produced those targets, as seen in the infamous policy of bulldozing homes. This cannot in good conscience be considered self-defence, and if it is intended as such, it is deeply misguided.

The steps Israel has taken in Hebron to lock down individual neighbourhoods and prevent mobility between neighbourhood is a security policy of sorts. But it is one that is highly damaging to the civilian population's quality of life, and it is not clear at all that it is stemming the flow of terrorist attacks in the area. If anything it seems motivated by the aggressive lobbying of the extreme religious in Israel, who want to settle Hebron completely.