Hebron, South Hebron Hills, Tue 23.11.10, Morning
.Translation: Bracha B.A.
Meitar Crossing
We decided to spend more time here at the crossing because of yesterday's difficult events (see report of November 22nd). When we arrived at 06:45 the workers had already crossed over and there were no prisoners' families. The people who remained were mostly merchants and reported that there had been no problems. Workers came up to us from everywhere who were not allowed to enter Israel and asked for our help. They all push and talk together. It is clear that people have no one to turn to and are left at the mercy of the General Security Forces, the army, and their various offshoots.
Route 60
Nothing exceptional occurred until the last kilometer before Shama. There we were stopped by a group of reservists who inspected us and asked where we were heading. We crossed through and found a temporary roadblock at the Dura Elfawwar Junction at the entrance to Dura. Soldiers were checking cars and pedestrians. When we returned they had left and returned to the pillbox. At the Sheep Junction soldiers were also standing at the market on the way but were no longer there when we returned. But on our way back we encountered a temporary roadblock at Dahariya. The balloon is always floating in the sky.
Hebron
A signpost of the road construction company stands at the entrance to the city. The elaborate new entrance will be called "The Sons' Entrance to the City of our Forefathers."
Everything in the city is routine. There are a lot of soldiers along the Worshipper's Road. Soldiers at the Pharmacy Junction ask if we are waiting for someone. They didn't bother us, but are checking almost everyone even as they have a magnometer. It is quiet at the Cave of the Patriarchs and the stores are closed. We have evidently missed a visit by Gomeh Agiar. There are not enough crazy people there already.
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
Raya YeorDec-18-2025Hebron - Yusri Jaber and part of his family
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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
Smadar BeckerApr-10-2026New Israeli flags placed for miles on Highway 317 to prove who is sovereign
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