Hebron
Last week the settlers entered the Patriarchs’ house. The house is located between a pharmacy checkpoint and El-Fahiya school and opposite the large parking lot. The settlers occupied the three floors at the middle entrance to the building. The other two entrances belong to the Palestinians and over one of them hanging Palestinian flags.
The heavy tractor, whose progress we followed, crossed the pharmacy checkpoint and apparently made further obstructions on the other side of the checkpoint in the H1 area that we were not allowed to be.
The settlers have already put down boxes of plants to expel the ugliness of their living there.
Every new structure they take over is a further theft of human rights from the Palestinians.
In the pictures are the entrance to the Patriarch’s House and he apartments which belong to the Palestinians.
The despair grows and grows.
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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