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Hebron 3

Place: Hebron
Observers: Hagit (watching, reporting and photographing); Translator: Natanya
Jun-24-2019
| Morning
Bringing soup from the mosque
Bringing soup from the mosque
Photo: Hagit Back
Only for non-Jews - a cart is the only allowed vehicle
Only for non-Jews - a cart is the only allowed vehicle
Photo: Hagit Back
Hebron children on their way to visit the Ibrahimi Mosque
Hebron children on their way to visit the Ibrahimi Mosque
Photo: Hagit Back

A third Hebron story

These are the three months of summer holidays for the Palestinian children in Hebron and they walk around the streets or are in camps.

In the pictures:

They go to bring soup from the mosque.

Going back and forth with the mule. A wagon is the only vehicle allowed to go around in the streets for non-Jews.

Children from the camps Hebron come to see the Ibrahimi Mosque.

Their bus is  parked in the parking lot of the Pharmacy CP on the Palestinian side, and they are dragged in the heat of the day  to the entrance to the Mosque through which the Muslims can pass. On the way they passed two checkpoints.

And two stories without pictures:

1. Since the attempted attack at the House of Dispute, in which a Palestinian was killed by the gunfire of our soldiers, the Palestinians are not allowed to pass there. Today, too, the soldiers forced us to move on while we were in a dialogue with the hilltop boy who is now a soldier. He really screamed at me.

2. Two hundred Palestinian drivers submitted a request for approval to be able to pass at the Zion axis. The requests are submitted to the Palestinian Authority who sends them to the Civil Administration where it will be  decided as to who will receive the permit and who will not. Of the 200 applications submitted, only 50 were approved.

That’s how the occupation works.

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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:

       

      1. Bet Hameriva CP- manned with a pillbox
      2. Kapisha quarter CP (the northern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      3. The 160 turn CP (the southern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      4. Avraham Avinu quarter - watch station
      5. The pharmacy CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      6. Tarpat (1929) CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      7. Tel Rumeida CP - guarding station
      8. Beit Hadassah CP - guarding station

      Three checkpoints around the Tomb of the Patriarchs

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