Hebron, South Hebron Hills
Hebron, Southern Hebron Hills
In general, there seems to be a desire to return to what it was like prior to the start of the Palestinians’ recent uprising.
It’s expressed by the opening of all the roadblocks and gates.
Ten days ago the checkpoint at Bani Na’im south was opened and three days ago the Beit Anun checkpoints were opened.
The army and police maintain the occupation routine with flying checkpoints.
Police at the Kvasim Junction
The army at Hazayit crossing, the entrance to Hebron from Highway 35, Ras al Jora neighborhood
Hebron
The Nahal is stationed in Hebron, and there’s not a living soul. Even the booth
On Thursday, Israel’s Independence Day, a large demonstration is planned on the Palestinian side of the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, calling for revoking the order defining it as a closed military area.
Among the participants will be representatives of foreign governments, members of the Hebron municipal council and of the Palestinian government.
All Israelis desiring peace were invited to attend.
Otherwise, the army is now busy guarding Menachem Livni’s vineyard (a member of the Jewish underground from the 1980’s who was released from prison), inside the town of Bani Na’im.
“The lords of the land” are now engaged in the following activities; you can see these signs next to lage numbers of Israeli flags.
The Palestinians I meet report being blacklisted from entering Israel from one day to the next. This particular family – one of its children was placed in administrative detention, jailed for twenty days, released as randomly as he’d been arrested, and the entry permits to Israel were confiscated from the whole hamula.
(We told them what they should do – mostly to wait until next year).
And, besides, all the Palestinian farmers are harvesting wheat, to finish before Ramadan which begins on June 6 this year.
Despair is unending.
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
Muhammad D.May-13-2026Hebron - Request for compensation for land expropriation
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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
Muhammad D.Jul-5-2026Fares's guestroom in Shweika
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