Early on the morning of 8 February 2012, more than twenty Israeli soldiers and Border Police broke into at least thirty homes in the Al-Khalil (Hebron)’s Old City.  The soldiers, many of whom are part of a unit of the Golani Brigade, used rifles, boots, and pry bars to break in doors and destroy locks.  Soldiers ransacked more than a dozen houses, ordered families outside into the night, damaged and destroyed property and verbally and physically harassed families who were asleep in their homes when the raid began.  Soldiers also broke down the door of the Ministry of Labor, which was empty in the early morning hours.