Hawwara
Hawwara, Wednesday 31.8.05 PMWatchers: Yehudiet K. Devorka A. (reporting)Natanya translating.A quiet watch but as a result of an alarm many young men from Hebron were detained. The handling of the situation by the commander of Hawarra was very unhelpful. 15.00 Tapuach checkpoint: 10 cars in a southerly direction waiting about 10 minutes. The soldier checking the cars in the direction of Nablus refused to speak to us but maybe that was because of the presence of 3 young and vulgar settler women who did their best to get into an argument with us and to try to educate us.When we arrived there were about 80 pedestrians but the line became shorter in a short while. 7 detainees, 6 from Hebron who said that they had been waiting more than 2 hours for the results of the investigation and one whom the CP commander said that he had caused a disturbance at the checkpoint.The commander ( I think his name was I.) as before he refused to give us his name….told us that the reason for the delay was that there was an alarm about a suspect coming from Hebron. As soon as we arrived he phoned to check what the result was of the investigation of the secret service. They promised him that they were carrying out the investigation. It was not clear to us why this had to take such a long time and whether the commander had done everything in his power to speed this …until we arrived, We phoned Y. of the DCO to check this. When he said that he had not managed to make contact with those responsible we phoned E. He knew about the affair and said that he had been told that the investigation would soon be concluded and if not the detainees would be freed and so it was.Two more detainees also from Hebron then arrived and the young man who had been detained because of his disturbance was also freed. From previous experience with the commander we are convinced that he does even less than the minimum to deal with problems.16.15 Beit Furik. Very quiet. The soldier told us that the ids which he had taken in the morning had been handed back to their owners.16.45 Hawarra: The last two detainees were released a few minutes after our arrival. The traders told us that there had been no problems that day but that the previous day there had been ructions.17.00 tapuach:,/b> 8 cars going to Ramallah most of them taxis.
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
Raya YeorDec-18-2025Hebron - Yusri Jaber and part of his family
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