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Hebron, Tue 21.8.12, Afternoon

Place: Hebron
Tags: Water Problems
Observers: Natanya G, Yehudit K and M at the wheel
Aug-21-2012
| Afternoon
 
We left Beersheva at 14.15 and travelled without surprises to Hebron, where there were also no surprises. Near the Pharmacy Checkpoint there was  a huge armoured police vehicle but apparently this was only a cigarette break for a grumpy and uncommunicative policeman.
Some TIPH observers nearby told us this was a not infrequent phenomenon.  We visited the Jaber family whose home is next to the gas station at K/ Arba and who have suffered in the past from both the Civil Administration and settlers.Things seem to have improved for them.   Now they hope to be connected to the water system of Hebron Municipality, which buys water from Israel's Mekorot Company.  The house looked better cared for and a new building is being built close to the original structure. They are hoping to get a permit for a fence that will keep settlers out, since the houses of K. Arba are built right up to the wall surrounding their property.We will keep in touch with them.  
 
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…Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and every where

The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity…

From Second Coming  W B Yeats

  • Hebron

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    • According to Wye Plantation Accords (1997), Hebron is divided in two: H1 is under Palestinian Authority control, H2 is under Israeli control. In Hebron there are 170,000 Palestinian citizens, 60,000 of them in H2. Between the two areas are permanent checkpoints, manned at all hours, preventing Palestinian movement between them and controlling passage of permit holders such as teachers and schoolchildren. Some 800 Jews live in Avraham Avinu Quarter and Tel Rumeida, on Givat HaAvot and in the wholesale market.

       

      Checkpoints observed in H2:

       

      1. Bet Hameriva CP- manned with a pillbox
      2. Kapisha quarter CP (the northern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      3. The 160 turn CP (the southern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      4. Avraham Avinu quarter - watch station
      5. The pharmacy CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      6. Tarpat (1929) CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      7. Tel Rumeida CP - guarding station
      8. Beit Hadassah CP - guarding station

      Three checkpoints around the Tomb of the Patriarchs

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      Hebron - Yusri Jaber and part of his family
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