After two IDF soldiers were killed in an attack on Friday and three wounded, a policy shift in the West Bank. Israel's new doctrine appears to be not to wait in the West Bank after an attack and demolish part of a home as part of the historic home demolitions policy, which would take months to prep and be precise (sometimes one apartment in a building)...but it is now more rapid, "The Civil Administration and the IDF demolished illegal buildings and infrastructure in the past day near the scene of yesterday's terror attack in Hebron - drone footage: before and after." The policy is a hybrid learned from Gaza and Lebanon and previous ops in former refugee camps in urban areas in the West Bank. CNN noted; "Israel begins demolitions in West Bank city after two soldiers killed in shooting attack...Israel began demolishing buildings and forcing residents to evacuate a neighborhood in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hours after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint, killing two soldiers." The report notes that Israel's PM "also said the military would forcefully evacuate the area of the attack and 'transform it completely,' employing the plan used in the Jenin, Tulkarm, Nur Shams, and Al-Far’a refugee camps in early 2025, which led to the displacement of thousands of Palestinians and the evacuation of entire neighborhoods." “That is exactly what we will do here, in a neighborhood in Hebron from which the terrorists came. We will evacuate the residents, go house to house, remove weapons found there, and address and destroy all terrorist infrastructure," Israel's PM said. The PA appears to say that some 2,500 may be affected, and hundreds of families already evacuated. Israeli officials hint at a mult-day operation and a big surprise for the PA; after the attack on Friday a number of local politicians called for dismantling the PA. There have been threats in the past by several ministers to go after the PA and also urging "a West Bank military campaign similar to Gaza." It's unclear if this is testing the waters of that concept. The lesson's learned from the Gaza policy had already been applied in a limited way in a few places and the international community largely accepted this. For instance the UN said in December 2025 "satellite imagery shows that nearly half of all buildings in the [Nur Shams] camp, 48 per cent, had already been damaged or destroyed before this latest order." The UN claimed some 30,000 people had been displaced in various areas of the northern West Bank at the time. Despite the recent attack on October 23, attacks in the West Bank had actually been at their lowest level in years, after many operations by the IDF.