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Hebron, Mon 21.12.09, Morning

Place: Hebron
Tags: Children Detainees
Observers: Raya J., Hagit S. (reports)
Dec-21-2009
| Morning

Translator:  Charles K.
Hebron
We arrive towards afternoon – many children on their way home from school. 
At the Pharmacy checkpoint and the Tarpa”t checkpoint and at all the other points soldiers let people through quickly – if they even bother checking.
Kafisha neighborhood – The soldiers’ booth is closed. 
Tel Rumeida: two Golani soldiers stopped and detained a youth as they inspected his bag, and in response to our question said that he’d cursed them. The soldier also says that a few days ago he caught a youth with a large knife under his shirt and prevented a stabbing. The youth told the police that he’s a martyr. They say that, overall, the sector is quiet.
Cave of the Patriarchs: New, calm Border Police on duty. 
At ‘Abad’s – No music today from Beit Gutnick (later, in fact, we heard the muezzin, but if there isn’t enough tolerance for the other’s music – why force yourself on their neighborhood??)
160 Curve: the soldiers are spread out (Are some of them from India?! They’re not speaking Hebrew. We didn’t understand what was going on…)
Sheikh Sa’ir – Trucks transfer goods back-to-back across the boulders which look larger today.

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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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