Hebron and Southern Hills of Hebron, 7/3/07Observers: Tsipi Z., Hagit B. (reporting)Guests: Ilana and Hadas (investigators for Channel 1, Mabat Sheni).09:00 – 16:00 On my shift today, my husband and a friend, quite concerned, called and told me of a piece a news that they had read in YNET about an incident that ocurred in Hebron. It reads as follows:————————————————————————————“Hebron: A Palestinian, carrying a knife, was apprehended.IDF Soldiers apprehended at a CP close to the Jewish settlement in Hebron a Palestinian. They found, allegedly, that he carried a knife. The knife was confiscated and the Palestinian was brought to the Police for investigation”. (Published: 7.3.07, 14:29)———————————————————————————–I was there at the time, and have not witnesses anything: no military presence, no gathering of people, nothing. Is there an attention to heat up the atmosphere?The Southern Hills of HebronMeitar passage: Sparse traffic. No workers. Enrance to Dahriyya: A military jeep, and the soldiers inside. Along the road No. 60: New dirt barriers along the road preventing vehicles from reaching it. Dura el-Pawar: Pillbox manned. Traffic flows.Mt. Manoach: No bulldozers at the parking lot.Turn to Benei Naim: A non-military van, with soldiers inside it, parks.Halhoul East: Traffic flows. Pillbox manned.Shiuch-Hebron: No military presence.Zif junction: A military jeep crosses the junction. At the grossary we meet representatives of the Red Crescent, on their medical tour among the residents of the Southern Hills of Hebron. Turn to Bnei-Hever, Elazar junction: It is not on our regular tour, but we wanted to check whether the barrier had been really removed, as we have heard. This is the entrance to the direction to Benei Naim, and from there on to East Halhoul and Hebron, an hour drive as opposed to 10 minutes on the apartheid no. 60 road. Yes, the barrier is open 24 hours a day! The pillbox is manned. HebronWe took our guests to all the “sights”: The checkpoints, the Goldstein tomb in Kiryat Arba, the Harsina Hill, The Route of the Parayers, the Hill of the Ancesters, the Avraham Avinu neighborhood, the Sharbati home. We visited families at Tel-Rumeida and the Harsina Hill, and learned of their life in the shadow of the settlers, utterly fearful and unprotected. Nasrin, a resident of Tel-Rumeida accompanied as along the whole tour. As we arrived the Shuhada Street, the soldiers prevented Nasrin from going forward (inspite of the fact that the Military Attorney declared that Palestinians should be allowed to pass along the street, and that the order of not letting them pass was a mistake). We took her in I’ car through the “forbidden” street. We showed the abominable graffiti, the protective cages on the windows, the people who have to carry the children on their hands up and down the steep roads, because they are forbidden to use vehicles.Our guests were appalled. They arrived by armoured vehicles, for protection from the Palestinians! Yet, we have to wait for the outcome of the film. After us, they went to meet Noam Arnon, the spokesman of the Jewish settlers in Hebron.There were no special events, and no one mentioned the incident that was broadcasted.