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South Hebron Wednesday morning, 14 April 2004 Watchers: Dvora A., Hagit B. (reporting), Yael Z. On the way – a police car right after Meitar and the El Fawar checkpoint both let us pass smoothly. We arrived at Yata too early – it was 07:30 our time [Israel has gone onto Daylight Savings Time] but only 06:30 according to theirs. No military vehicles on the way, only few people crossing the road between Yata and Hebron South.We continued on Hwy #60 towards the eastern exit of Yata to check the roadblock there. The gate was open, no one was seen around. Back to the “sheep junction”, between Yata and the Hebron industrial zone. We arrived at 06:30 (Palestinian time), parked the car 50 meters from the junction and walked to a point on the Yata side where we could observe the people passing the road. Some angry taxi drivers told us about 4 soldiers checking and detaining people for hours, inside Yata. We couldn’t check, as it’s in Area A.A Humvee arrived at about 07:00 local time, checked our driver and continued to the junction. 3 soldiers got out of it and watched the people passing. We continued to give Moked cards (with contact info for the Center for the Defense of the Individual) to those going through – students going to school, workers and taxi drivers. About 30 minutes later, one of the Palestinians showed us a line of men prevented from passing. We saw the soldiers collecting their ID cards. The taxi drivers told us it happens from time to time and the people are delayed for about one and a half hours. We left our observation point and went to the junction to see about it. The soldiers assured us that they would let the people pass after checking their IDs by phone. We asked about giving them water (it was already hot outside) but got no reply. There were about 30 men waiting in line and several minutes after our arrival the passage was stopped – “For your safety,” as the soldiers explained. We asked one man to phone us when they are released, then returned to our car. On the way back we could see people crossing the road again and 5 minutes later the man told us they were all being released.A border-watching car was parked at the Daharia junction, stopping cars from crossing the road.We arrived at the Shoket Junction at 09:00.
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:
- Bet Hameriva CP- manned with a pillbox
- Kapisha quarter CP (the northern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
- The 160 turn CP (the southern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
- Avraham Avinu quarter - watch station
- The pharmacy CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
- Tarpat (1929) CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
- Tel Rumeida CP - guarding station
- Beit Hadassah CP - guarding station
Three checkpoints around the Tomb of the Patriarchs
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