Hebron
Bethlehem, Monday 19.2.07Observers: On the road: Ada G, Shraga GAt the DCL: Idit N, Noam K (Reporting) At the Eztion DCL: They are still renovating. People still come there not knowing that magnetic cards are not being issued now. Some tried in vain at the DCL at Hebron. It’s very frustrating when there is nothing to be done. Most of the people were waiting for work permits. At usual, they got there at 6:00-7:00, at 9:00 the soldiers took their IDs, but by they time we left (10:30) they still didn’t get them back. Outside there is a new shed made out of tin, it’s the size of a bus station. They forgot to put in a bench and that the number of people who wait there isn’t 7, it’s usually about 50. The rest of the people who were there were waiting for permits that had to do with humanitarian issues. The line wasn’t moving. No one entered for half an hour. We called the Moked and the counter. They started letting people in. The policeman wasn’t there. We were told he would be there at noon. On the road: Not many people approached the Mashsom Watch shift, Ada reported about an incident with a good ending: She met a man at Nabi Unis who had a citation on a fine he paid at a traffic court. His license was at Ras El Amud, and he waited there on Sunday (the day before) to get it. At checkpoint number 300 he was told that he couldn’t pass and his permit, that is valid until April 2007, was taken from him! He remembered which counter took the permit from him and what the time was. Ada called the checkpoint commander who told her he didn’t have a clue where the permit was, but that he would nonetheless let that man pass, so that he could get a new permit at the civil administration. Obviously he didn’t want to go there, he was scared he would get caught later on and he just didn’t want to get a new permit. Ada set to meet him at checkpoint 300, she kept making calls and trying to find out where the permit was. Eventually, due to Ada’s insistence and thanks to the checkpoint commander, the permit was found.
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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