Hebron and Khursa: One shift and two stories
The story of Khursa
Khursa is a village-town located in Area A, on an east-west road that connects two north-south roads: Road 60 and Road 358. On that same road is the Negohot settlement, which metastasizes at the expense of Palestinian lands. Now there are already four hills far apart and they are all Negohot. One of them is a sheep farm. Another is a “B&B”. The people of the settlement wanted to be allowed to travel in the territories of the Palestinian Authority and in honor of their security built a pillbox in a ruin on private Palestinian land. The area was nationalized and is now called a “Red Area” under military control by the Civil Administration. The pillbox shares a common wall with the family Diwan. (Diwan is the public meeting space/building of the clan where everyone meets). T., the clan’s Mukhtar (head), tells us in fluent Hebrew about the daily difficulties of life near the pillbox and the need for prior approval for any use of it.
Although he’s got the personal number of the Civil Administration man, sometimes he does not answer him for long hours. The pleasant soldiers who are now coming down three times a day for three hours and show presence. Let them not forget for a moment who the rulers are here.
The story of Hebron
In Hebron, 170 Palestinian cars are already allowed to pass, with the approval of the Civil Administration, from Area 1H to Area 2H. We discovered this at the Givat HaAvot checkpoint where the gate is still broken. But Nahal soldiers at the checkpoints are still checking on the drivers.
On the occasion of the elections for the Hebron municipality, advertisements are hanging on all the grocery stores.
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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