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Bethlehem

Place: Hebron
Observers: One of the bus drivers,someone there
Oct-21-2003
| Afternoon

Halhul checkpoint:
Buses parked and waiting on either
side of blockage. People walking the considerable distance in
between. One of the bus drivers explained that they were unable to
contact the office of the Hebron Civil Administration these past
days, and their licenses were already invalid. We finally got hold
of someone there who feebly replied that we were probably unaware
of what had happened in Bet El, and that until their premises were
appropriately fortified work would not resume.

checkpoint 35 (Hebron North):
Only two soldiers
attending traffic approaching from three directions. Progress
extremely slow and limited. Only humanitarian cases and basic
foodstuffs allowed passage. All other vehicles were sent back along
the same dangerously narrow road.

Efrata North checkpoint:
Some 20 people detained and
papers checked. Two ambulances at either side of checkpoint
transferring patient ‘back-to-back’ (including moving from
stretcher to stretcher).

Road to Husan (near Betar):
Few people passing through
on foot.

  • 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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