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Hebron - Makhpela house

Place: Hebron
Observers: Hagit (watching, reporting and photographing); Translator: Natanya
Aug-26-2019
| Morning
Makhpela house
Makhpela house
Photo: Hagit Back

The  Makhpela house

The organization of Harkhiva Ohalech (expand your tent), an organization from the Jewish community in Hebron is trying to expand Jewish control in Hebron in every way.

They use  the octopus method, each house is far from the other house and is close to Palestinian neighbors whose life becomes restricted, following the purchase of the house by Jews. More blocks and more barriers are being set up.

The Makhpela House is located near the pharmacy checkpoint and the al-Fahiya school, a girls’ school. The bought house has Palestinian neighbors and we talk to them for a long time today.

They are afraid.

The Appeals Committee approved the purchase of the Makhpela house, and Jews will be able to enter it, for the first time since they were voluntarily evicted more than two years ago.

This is the language of the message from yesterday at the Kiipa site.

In the picture:

The settlers’ car and doors are painted in the white by the settlers and an open door of the Palestinian residents.

Hagit of Peace Now said that the court’s decision would be appealed.

Yesterday the school year began in the Palestinian Authority.

Pictured below is the school in Deir Razak

In general everything is desolate  and the heat is unbearable

 

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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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