In 1968, a group of Jewish settlers led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, with the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, rented out the main hotel in Hebron and refused to leave. Shavei Hebron yeshiva in the Beit Romano building of the Jewish quarter in old Hebron. But Hebron became Jewish four thousand years ago under Abraham and included a number of settlements that were destroyed two days before Israel was established.' According to Randolph Churchill, he argued that 'Jerusalem became Jewish three thousand years ago under King David. in the cause of peace, Israel should take nothing in the conquered territories, with the exception of Hebron, which 'is more Jewish even than Jerusalem'. In an interview with the BBC on July 12, 1967, Former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared that: Under the Allon Plan, Israel was to annex 45% of the West Bank and Jordan the remainder. Israel's position was that parts of the West Bank be traded for peace with Jordan. The vacillations in the Israeli cabinet after the war, over annexation and the political realism in wanting to maintain the majority Jewish demographic of Israel left the Israeli leadership in a quandary in ways to deal with the newly occupied territories. Israeli rule and Jewish re-settlement ДЇollowing the June 1967 Six Day War, Hebron came under Israeli control. In 1950, the city was unilaterally incorporated into Jordan. With the signing of the Armistice agreements the city fell exclusively under Jordanian control. By late 1948, part of the Egyptian forces had been isolated around Hebron and Bethlehem, Pasha Glubb sent 350 Arab Legionnaires and established a Jordanian presence in Hebron. In 1931, 160 Jews returned to the town, but after further Arab unrest, the British Government decided to move all Jews out of Hebron 'to prevent another massacre'.ДЄt the beginning of the 1948 ArabвЂ“Israeli War, Egypt occupied Hebron. In the massacre, 67 Jews were killed by Arab rioters, and many incidents of rape, mutilation, and torture were reported. In 1929 when the Hebron massacre took place, Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews had been living in Hebron for about 800 and 100 years respectively. From December 1917, Hebron came under the rule of the Mandatory Palestine, a move sanctioned by the League of Nations.

In the mid-19th century, Hebron was small town with a population of around 10,000, the majority of whom were Muslims. Synagogue desecrated during the 1929 Hebron massacre

Palestinians shops have been forced to close despite protests Palestinian women are reportedly frisked by men, and residents, who are subjected every day to repeated body searches, must register to obtain special permits to navigate through the 18 military checkpoints Israel has set up in the city center. As of 2015, Israel has declared that a number of special areas of Old City of Hebron constitute a closed military zone.

H2, which was inhabited by around 30,000 Palestinians is under Israeli military control with an entire brigade in place to protect some 800 Jewish residents living in the old Jewish quarter. The H1 sector of Hebron, home to around 170,000 Palestinians, is governed by the Palestinian Authority. Hebron has a Palestinian majority, consisting of an estimated 208,750 citizens (2015) and a small Jewish minority, variously numbered between 500 and 800. The IsraeliвЂ“Palestinian conflict in Hebron refers to an ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron in the context of the IsraeliвЂ“Palestinian conflict.

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