Hebron
Bethelehem area, Monday morning, September 4Observers : Chaya O and Ronny P Nashash, 7am:First sight as we turn off the main road- a military jeep and a number of soldiers standing around. And we, the other Israelis in this busy Palestinian transit point are on our way to meet the people with whom we arranged to meet to hand over papers and receive more requests for help with traffic police.We are told by a couple of drivers that settlers have been throwing stones near the Etzion traffic circle. The soldiers watch but don’t stop the settlers from doing it.Beit Omar. and Bet Yunis, 8am:We meet more taxi drivers who tell us that traffic police often fine them for fictious trangressions such as bad tyres when their tyres are brand new and that the drive on road 60 (which should take 10 minutes) takes them an hour of driving on the lousy bypass roads in the Hebron area.DCO Etzion 10am:There are many people- a long line for work permits , some quiet people waiting for their interview with Captain Moshe or David or whoever. Last week we met a doctor who lives and works in Kiev and came to visit family after a 7 months absence. On his way back home, on Allenby bridge he was stopped, handed a summons to an interview at Etzion DCO and natually was not allowed to proceed to Amman to return home. We spoke Russian and it was so absurd to be having this conversation next to the gate that may or may not summon him to meet this Captain Shlomo .We spent some time trying to help a couple whose son is hospitalized and waitng for an operation at Mt of Olives hospital. The father got his permit to go but the mother discovered that she is is GSS (Beneral Security Services) prevented to enter Israel. She had no idea why. We spoke english and understood that maybe the fact that she is Bethlehem university graduate in biology may have something to do with it. We even manages to make the soldiers to check the computer again and there it was- the “security risk” paragraph. She can visit her son on condition that 2 security guards at the cost of 1500 NIS accompany her. It was very frustrating to know we can’t help. We gave her the phone number of our “Intelligence” team who may help her to appeal and be taken off the computer.On the way back we met another taxi driver who told us tha all his papers were taken by traffic policemen although it is illegal to take documents away.This was a routine shift..
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
Muhammad D.May-13-2026Hebron - Request for compensation for land expropriation
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