Hebron. Small settlements are choking the Palestinians
Highway 60
At the junction of Dura-Al Fawwar, the Israeli Electricity company is working and there are a lot of soldiers protecting the junction. The Palestinians are already used to this.
Hebron
More and more small settlements are choking the Palestinians in area H2.
And something encouraging: Reut Preparatory tour with Breaking the Silence.
Highway 317
While we were in Hebron, we got an update from Raia about house destruction. We understood that the destruction was in the village of Zif, next to the school. They destroyed a house that they had started building and a water cistern. We arrived 10 minutes after the army left. It is not possible to understand the logic behind the destruction. Of course, there is no feeling of remorse
Opposite the barns of Maon Carmel they erected a water system for the acreage set aside for the settlers. Scarce and valuable grazing ground stolen from the Palestinians.
And the expense of water for Palestinians in the south Hebron hills is known to us. For the settlers, water for agriculture is heavily subsidized.
At the end of our shift, we met with Shabtai from the Settlement Watch team and we showed him the current work area (Opposite Tene Omarim, 6 km north of the Meitar checkpoint).
Dura Al-Fawwar Junction
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Junction on Route 60: west - the town of El Dura, east - the Al Fawwar refugee camp. There is a manned pillbox at the junction. From time to time the army sets up flying checkpoints at the entrance to El Fawwar and Al Dura. Al-Fawwar is a large refugee camp (7,000 inhabitants in 2007) established in 1949 to accommodate Palestinian refugees from Be'er Sheva and Beit Jubrin and environs. There are many incidents of stone-throwing. In the vicinity of the pillbox there are excellent agricultural areas, Farmers set up stalls adjacent to the plots close to the road. In recent months the civil administration has set up dirt embankments thereby blocking access to the stalls, and making it impossible for the farmers to sell their vegetables. Updated April 2021, Michal T.
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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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Zif Junction
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Zif Junction located on the crossroads that directs towards Road 356 to Yata. Yata is the district city of the southern Hebron Mountains. Usually, this junction is open to traffic. The nearby pillbox is unmanned. But the army and police are present occasionally, sometimes setting up a checkpoint and sometimes detaining residents from the big city. Often, the Israeli policemen inspect vehicles and distribute driving reports to Palestinian vehicles. s
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