Hebron, South Hebron Hills
A photo story of the occupation.
On road 60 as far as Hebron between the hours of 8 to 9 in the morning a police car which seems to be looking for cars of which the license plates have been stolen.
An army jeep next to Deir Razih. There is also one next to the Kaliglis.
Children are seen running away. The soldiers guard the road from the throwing of stones.
The last Shabbat was the Shabbat of the Life of Sarah affair. These are the Jewish “exceptional days” and 35,000 people were guests of Kiryat Arba and Hebron.
The Palestinians are already trained and they have put themselves under curfew. The few children walking around in the street were shouted at and beaten by the settlers.
In the pictures below:
The gate near Kiryat Arba and the Worshipers’ Route. Cars can not pass and he two women with babies in their arms are walking there. They too tell us about the curfew they imposed on themselves last Shabbat.
The tent which was built for all the visitors is being taken down. It was built on the parking lot of the Cave of the Patriarchs.
The pharmacy checkpoint.
An old man goes up the stairs of the House of Contention. On the Sabbath the settlers harassed him as he went up and down to bring goods to his grocery store. As is so well known the Zion road is an apartheid road and Palestinians are not allowed to drive there even if all they want to do is bring merchandise to their stores.
Border Policemen arrested children who threw stones near the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. We met them at the checkpoint trying to find out where the children were taken. They did not get an answer so if I went to find out. I came back with the answer that the children were taken to the police station in Giv’at Ha’avot and that they would be released soon. When I got out of the police, the children’s family members had already disappeared …. scared and in despair.
The end of the scenes of the day.
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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