Trans. by Naomi S.

Tarquomiya: when we arrive, all workers have already gone through and there are no families' visits (to Israeli prisons).
Idna-Tarqumiya CP: Pillbox is manned.
On the entryway to Idna, a red signpost was set up, announcing this to be A zone (until today there was no such signpost, and the area was considered B – I hope that it's announcement as A are would mean that residents of Idna, Beit Awwa, and the rest of the villages on this road, leading up to Dahariya, are no longer hustled. At the grocery in Idna, traders who arrived later to the CP complain that no additional lanes are opened on days when there are families' visits. Apart from that, there are no complaints regarding the CP's operation.On the road leading from Tarqumiya CP to the Idna-Tarqumiya junction, serious paving work is being done – the road will lead directly from Halhul to Tarqumiya CP, thus sparing those arriving north of the CP to reach it via Road 35.

Road 35

Pillboxes (x3) are all manner. A Palestinian vehicle on the road. Excellent figs for sale.
The olive pathway is open, and traffic flows on the Halhul-Hebron road.

Road 60

Shayouch Hebron: still blocked and there's no way to cross road 60 – the place is deserted when we drive through.
The same goes for Dura Alfawwar, Sheeps' Junction – whatever was open last week is still open now and there appear to be no changes – all seems sleepy and lifeless.

Hebron

On the road leading to Kiryat Arba we see there is activity in the illegal settlement set up there. There are no detainees at any of the CPs and Hebron seems sad and deserted – we visited all the following CPs and they were all manned by Border Police soldiers and Paratroopers: The House of Dispute; Curve 160; Beit Hadasah; Tarpat; Tel Rumeidah; Patriarchs' Tombs' Cave; Gross Square.
Yesterday night we saw on Ynet that, following the evacuation of an illegal outpost, and in accordance with their "price-tag" policy, settlers harmed Palestinian cars in the Abu Senan neighbourhood, so we wanted to hear some testimonies. However, we were unsuccessful as whoever we asked next to all of these CPs – and we've asked almost everyone who walked past there (not many) – either didn't know or did not want to tell.What we were told of, further up, in the Tel Rumeidah neighbourhood is that yesterday, at around 7pm, settlers threw stones at a local house. furthermore, a TIF patrol van was stoned, too – the Palestinians claimed it was the settlers work – the patrol people themselves said they didn't see who did it, and it could well have been Palestinians too – neither side like us, they said, thanking their good luck, as none was in the vehicle when the stones were hurled at it.

On the Prayers' route, a little past the pillbox next to Kiryat Arba, we walk to the house of a Palestinian who tells us of the damage done to it by settlers, but not yesterday — a week ago.

Shouhada St., next to the military base: new signposts.
According to A (Bezelem volunteer), yesterday, at around 5pm, a settlers' mob came out from the direction of the Gross Sq., heading toward Abu Snan neighbourhood – they went past the grey gate there, breaking the windows of three cars parked next to the cemetery. The distance from the wholesale market to those cars is no more than 100m – so they did it all very quickly, then running away and never being caught. Today's most annoying CP is the one in Kapiesha Neighborhood, located where the Zion Route begins. Three Border Police soldiers man the pillbox here 24hrs a day.
Eleven cars now have permits to drive through (last week, it was five!), one soldier examines documents, while the two others open the green/white painted gate. While we're there, two cars drive through. But what is annoying is the interruption inflicted on this neighborhood's residents by the CP's very existence (before it was put up, there was only a blockage). The owners of the local factory are not allowed to use a crane to move merchandise around – a mere 10m separate the yard they used as storage and the factory itself – but the yard is now sealed with concrete blocks and the soldiers will not allow them to move merchandise to the other side, beyond those blocks – nor will they remove the block itself, in order to make things easier… before the CP was put up, this would have been possible. So why?
Well, because removing merchandise between Zone H1 and Zone H2 requires a special permit from the local command HDQ and if there's no such permit, no merchandise can be moved. The factory owners claim they have such permit, the BP soldiers say they don't. If only they were a bit more imaginative or motivated, the crane would have downloaded its load on the right side of the concrete blocks and it would have been possible to move the merchandize on to the factory with a small tractor.In short, the occupation regulations require requesting a permit and there are no exceptions, etc. – and the owners who, until now, did not need to submit any such request seem right irritated. The track, anyway, is allowed to enter Kiryat Arba. Again, we have witnessed the apathy experienced by the Palestinians on every move and turn. We gave the factory's owner the phone number of K, from the local command headquarters', so that he can handle this on his own.