Israel announced it would completely close all land crossings with the occupied West Bank on Tuesday (October 27), the day of its general election. This follows an earlier statement by the Israeli army on Sunday that it would prohibit Palestinian workers from entering most areas of the West Bank from Sunday to Monday. The move was announced after the Israeli army imposed a blockade on Hebron and conducted hundreds of raids, following an attack by two Palestinian gunmen on an Israeli army base that killed two Israeli soldiers.