Hebron, South Hebron Hills, Tue 5.1.10, Morning
Trans: Bracha B.A.
Sansana-Meytar
The checkpoint was already packed at 7am. Three busses with prisoners’ families are waiting to be checked. The families are waiting under the shed and everything goes smoothly.
Route 60
It is very foggy and the road is very dangerous because children are walking to school along the roadside, and it is almost impossible to see them. We were very happy to see that the roadblock opposite Mount Masnoch – where the battalion headquarters are located – has been removed! We saw few military vehicles on the road.
Hebron
The morning rush is as usual. Children walk to school. Soldiers stand in the alleyways in front of Curve 160 near the Prayers' Route. At Curve 160 there are many soldiers, but they don't detain anyone.
Pharmacy Checkpoint: children walk through the magnometer without delay and are neither stopped nor checked by hand. Many soldiers milling about along Shuhada Street. Anat Cohen was not yet noticed, and people from the CPT (peace activists) say that the soldiers from the Shimshon Brigade behave well.
Tel Romeida Checkpoint: there are many soldiers here but they neither do anything nor detain anyone. We didn’t see anyone detained at any other checkpoint either. The policemen next the Patriarchs' Cave greeted us and looked pleased when we left. Nothing happens on the Zion Route. Apparently it will remain closed permanently.
As usual, we drank tea at our “office” in the metal shop in the Kafisha neighborhood.
The despairing routine of the occupation continues.
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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