Hebron
Bethlehem and surroundings, Wednesday, 21.9.2005, PMReporting: Hadas B. Orit Y.Our shift was with a lot of military regime bureaucracy. Etzion DCO 15:50: Out of work, the computers failed and it was not possible to respond to the Palestinians’ requests. We started to help by taking care first of the medical requests which reached the desk and were not answered because “there was no computer”. Among the people there was a father whose request was to join his son who needed to be operated on at Hadassah on Thursday; a family requesting to visit their son at the Shaarey-Tsedek hospital; and an Israeli Arab who asked to take his sister from Bethlehem to Al-Mukassad hospital in Eastern Jerusalem. We turned to Azhar and he explained to us that there were no computers during the whole day, and when the computers will be back, the people’s requests will be answered, and he doesn’t know how long it will take.We turned to Dalia Basa and she got in touch with Motty. He promised her that the permits will be issued in Hebron DCO and will be transferred to Bethlehem DCO. At 21:45 I learned that all the requests were answered. Motty told me that he spoke personally with each one of the people, and told them to go and get the permits.A sign appears at the DCO telling that the police office will be closed until Sunday 25.9.05 after 11:00.El-Khadr17:25 – A military jeep stood by the barbed wire fence overlooking the tunnels’ road. We heard from the cab drivers that it was very difficult to go through the Container. They almost let nobody go through and closed the CP in the direction of Maale-Edomim for two weeks already. C.P. 300 18:00 – There were no detainees and we were told that all the people who got their permit after 13.7.05 (the terrorist attack at Natania) could go through.
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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