Hebron, South Hebron Hills, Tue 26.7.11, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
Meytar Crossing
The crossing is packed with trucks at this hour and there are no workers.
Route 60
The observation balloon is floating very low over the area of Dahariyya. A new army base is being built on the hill facing the road to Negohot opposite the village of Dir Raza. There are a lot of heavy equipment vehicles leveling the hilltop to build or pave a road. There were a lot of soldiers climbing the hills and a lot of vehicles beneath Beit Hagai near the blocked entrance to Hebron. We were told a military exercise is taking place.
The Tuesday sheep market is taking place at the Sheep Junction. Soldiers are standing there supervising, and we asked once again why there is a need to interfere in the lives of the local residents. The soldiers are reservists who behave politely and respectfully even when they stop cars. They know who we are: "You're not as bad as they say you are." They explained that they are there to make sure things remain orderly and that sometimes the sheep merchants block Route 60. It appears to us that they are making up a reason for their presence there and we ask them if it wouldn't be better if they were present at the protest sites. |They answer that they were there on Saturday. They smile cynically and report, "We don't have apartments, either" He adds, "Between you and me, it's preferable that people like us are here."
Hebron
The Federman farm in the valley between Kiryat Arba and the neighborhoods in the city is populated with the settlers' children at a summer camp. The Border Patrol and the Shimshon Brigade are patrolling the city, which is empty and quiet. No one is detained and we are happy to leave the city quickly today.
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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