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Hebron

Place: Hebron
Tags: Soldiers at checkpoints Walls and Blockades
Observers: Netanya, Yael Agmon (Reporting). Charles K. (trans.)
Jan-21-2014
| Morning

We left Shoket junction at 07:40 to meet Netanya at the entrance to Kiryat Arba.  On the way we saw no checkpoints or soldiers by the roadside.

 

Hebron

08:30  We drive through Hebron.  Naha”l soldiers are now stationed there.  No one paid any attention to us at the entrance to the Cave of the Patriarchs; much of the fence there, the one restricting Palestinians, has been moved.

Up the road a soldier stops us, asks for ID.

Tel Rumeida: The excavation continues.  The workers are Bedouin from the Negev, about 30 in number.  There are three Ford Transit vans.  One of the drivers told us the contractor is from Rahat and works regularly with the Antiquities Authority.  As far as he knows, the excavation at Tel Rumeida will continue for about another month, and then they’ll move to the entrance.

We have to keep track of what’s going on.

Four Border Police soldiers are seated sunning themselves at the entrance to the excavation. 

(Though we’re told the IDF doesn’t have enough manpower to establish additional agricultural and other crossings.)

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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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