Dura - an email report in Corona days
Report in Corona days
On Tuesday, 7.4, I rang our friend Y. from Dura to check out what was happening with them. Y. is a “scribe”, writes requests for removal of prevention to enter Israel of people in Hebrew and submits them on behalf of these people to the office which deals with this.
The answers come to him and people who have again been refused and want to petition the court are referred to me. After the conversation with the man, I email Y. to forward the man’s documents to me for the petition.
Y. is in continuous contact with me as well as with Tammy, Goni Tzur and Sylvia. When I contact him about a potential petitioner he usually replies within 24 hours. These days there are very few inquiries to us, but still at 4.4 someone did get in touch whom he had dealth with. I wrote to him about this man and didn’t get an answer.
The last time we spoke, his office was still open, and he said he installed a partition between him and his clients. I assumed the office was now closed. Despite this, I wrote to him, and when he didn’t reply I was a little worried.
On 7.4 I rang Y. to his cell phone and he did not reply anddid not get back to me later, and I was more worried. But then, in the evening, a message came from him in an email addressed to Tammy, Sylvia Goni and me, in which he wishes us and our families a Happy Passover on behalf of his family members (some of whom I knew when there were the sea days for the children organized by MW memebers). There has been a curfew for 18 days and has now been extended for another 25 days, the office is closed and everyone is in their homes, but to my question he replied that everything was fine with them and again wished us a happy holiday again.
South Hebron Hills
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South Hebron Hills
South Hebron Hills is a large area in the West Bank's southern part.
Yatta is a major city in this area: right in the border zone between the fertile region of Hebron and its surroundings and the desert of the Hebron Hills. Yatta has about 64,000 inhabitants.
The surrounding villages are called Masafer Yatta (Yatta's daughter villages). Their inhabitants subsist on livestock and agriculture. Agriculture is possible only in small plots, especially near streams. Most of the area consists of rocky terraces.Since the beginning of the 1980s, many settlements have been established on the agricultural land cultivated by the Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills region: Carmel, Maon, Susia, Masadot Yehuda, Othniel, and more. Since the settlements were established and Palestinians cultivation areas have been reduced; the residents of the South Hebron Hills have been suffering from harassment by the settlers. Attempts to evict and demolish houses have continued, along with withholding water and electricity. The military and police usually refrain from intervening in violent incidents between settlers and Palestinians do not enforce the law when it comes to the investigation of extensive violent Jewish settlers. The harassment in the South Hebron Hills includes attacking and attempting to burn residential tents, harassing dogs, harming herds, and preventing access to pastures.
There are several checkpoints in the South Hebron Hills, on Routes 317 and 60. In most of them, no military presence is apparent, but rather an array of pillboxes monitor the villages. Roadblocks are frequently set up according to the settlers and the army's needs. These are located at the Zif Junction, the Dura-al Fawwar crossing, and the Sheep Junction at the southern entrance to Hebron.
Updated April 2022
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