Hebron and Southern Hills of Hebron
Hebron and Southern Hills of HebronMonday, 30.4.07, Morning Observers: Michal Z., Hagit B. (reporting)06:30 – 10:00 Sansana CP : Few people pass. Transit vehicles wait on the Israeli side.Road 60 : Traffic sparse. No military visible presence, but the dirt barriers are piled high anew, especially at Samoa, together with countless concrete cubicles. There is no visible military presence along the road. All the pillboxes are manned. Road 35 : At the shooting range near the pillbox trainings are carried out – to kill. The traffic on the Halhul-Hebron Bridge flows. Road 356 : We went to Benei-Hever to observe where members of Rabbies for Justice were attacked late Friday. The CP is open. The fence is electricized. It seems that at the antennae hill a new settlement is been built. Road 317 : The defence fence near the road that was to be taken down, is still in place. But all the usual openings have also been closed by dirt barriers since the Day of Independence. We called lawyer Limor Yehuda, and she handles the case.Hebron : desperately quiet., Tarpat CP : The strike of the teachers continues. The teachers pass the CP as they used to, not in groups. Pharmacy CP : Looks deserted. The soldiers are inside. The CP at the Cave : No detainees.The disputed house : Telephone cables are already in. The road has turned into an Apartheid road. 6 vehicles of settlers park near the house. The neighbors have added razor tiles from inside to protect them. The symbiosis between the settlers and the soldiers continues.
Halhul-Hebron Bridge
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Generally allows free flowing traffic, except for sudden checks by soldiers stationed permanently in the pillbox, on Route 35 in the southern West Bank.
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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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