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Hebron checkpoints: "We live in one large cage"

Place: Hebron
Observers: Hagit (watching, reporting and photographing); Translator: Natanya
Apr-29-2019
| Morning

A Palestinian said to me apologetically. We live in a one large cage” because of the numerous checkpoints in Hebron

18 checkpoints are constantly being manned and there are many other barriers, decorated for the Passover holiday of the Jews.

Welcome to the Curve 160 …

Welcome to Pharmacy checkpoint…

The Jewish holiday passed without any special events. And what happened happened as a routine that the Palestinians are already used to.

Human rights is another story.

It is easier today to be occupiers.

Another story that happened today on duty is the refusal of the soldiers stationed under the Cordoba school to allow a delegation of teachers from Sweden to come to visit the school. My attempts at intervention through the DCO in Hebron to allow them to ascend had no results. The company commander of the Rotem battalion of Givati refused for operational reasons.

Thus the Swedes received an excellent demonstration of the arbitrariness of the Israeli occupation and the significance of having a Palestinian school in such a system.

I really feel bad experiencing this and knowing that we have many more years to go. How did one of the Swedes say, “We are all waiting for the deal of the century”.

  • 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:

       

      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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