Hebron, South Hebron Hills
On road 60 up to Shuyukh-Sair, all the blockades and gates to Hebron are open.
At Shuyukh-Sair the entrance to Hebron is closed by concrete barricades on which the state flags are still painted.
At the entrance to Kiriyat Arba a soldier in the booth is accessorized from head to foot.
Although the improvised synagogue Hazon David was destroyed, IDF vehicles are present there all the time.
At the edge of Zir Zion, near the locksmith's workshop, there was, till the day before yesterday, a passage for carts at least. The day before yesterday they poured there earth as well as fragments of concrete barricades.
Now pedestrians headly go there. To the grocery which is situated at H2 no fresh supplies were brought today because of this.
The area of the Cave of the Patriarchs bustles with visitors.
A large group of of interested persons (from the Right, judging by their attire and general look)
At the watch posts there are girl soldiers too.
Abed says that yesterday there were people of "Shovrim Shtika" with a group here. They continue.
At the Shuhada street, from end to end there are crowds of soldiers guarding. At the entrance to Shehunat our father Abraham there are soldiers in the booth.
At the Gross square, very near to the cemetery, there is a booth and a soldier in it.
At the incline of the first steps to the Cordoba school there is a soldier.
At the incline of the second set of steps to the school, opposite the Hadassa House, there is a soldiers.
The Tarpat CP looks now exactly like the passage from West Berlin to East Berlin,
At the entrance to Tel Rumeida, as usual there is a blockade and also a booth with a soldier but it now also is on the right side of this road, at the site of the famous event.
On the crossing road, at curve 160, girl soldiers release a detained person. We saw the end of the event, while he arranged his clothes after he had been asked to remove them.
18 year old girls perform such an invasive search to an adult person. His expression says it all. And we, where shall we put our anger and shame?
Thus one solves the problems – more humiliations, more fences, more posts with soldiers… all with the purpose that people of the kind of Barukh Marsel, Offer Ohana, Itamar Ben Gvir, Anat Cohen may continue to go wild and abuse others.
Back by road 317. Nothing special except the new neighborhoods at Carmel Ma'on and Sussiya, which are splendidly displayed and look beautiful from the road.
And they tell us that the building in the occupied territories has been stopped.
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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South Hebron Hills
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South Hebron Hills
South Hebron Hills is a large area in the West Bank's southern part.
Yatta is a major city in this area: right in the border zone between the fertile region of Hebron and its surroundings and the desert of the Hebron Hills. Yatta has about 64,000 inhabitants.
The surrounding villages are called Masafer Yatta (Yatta's daughter villages). Their inhabitants subsist on livestock and agriculture. Agriculture is possible only in small plots, especially near streams. Most of the area consists of rocky terraces.Since the beginning of the 1980s, many settlements have been established on the agricultural land cultivated by the Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills region: Carmel, Maon, Susia, Masadot Yehuda, Othniel, and more. Since the settlements were established and Palestinians cultivation areas have been reduced; the residents of the South Hebron Hills have been suffering from harassment by the settlers. Attempts to evict and demolish houses have continued, along with withholding water and electricity. The military and police usually refrain from intervening in violent incidents between settlers and Palestinians do not enforce the law when it comes to the investigation of extensive violent Jewish settlers. The harassment in the South Hebron Hills includes attacking and attempting to burn residential tents, harassing dogs, harming herds, and preventing access to pastures.
There are several checkpoints in the South Hebron Hills, on Routes 317 and 60. In most of them, no military presence is apparent, but rather an array of pillboxes monitor the villages. Roadblocks are frequently set up according to the settlers and the army's needs. These are located at the Zif Junction, the Dura-al Fawwar crossing, and the Sheep Junction at the southern entrance to Hebron.
Updated April 2022
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