Hebron, Sun 26.2.12, Morning
Translator: Charles K.
Here’s how a policeman described what Hebron looked like Sunday morning: like the ocean, quiet now after Friday’s storm – the demonstration to open Shuhada Street and the massive response by the army and the police.
But signs remain – the lengthy delays of the teachers at the Pharmacy checkpoint; schoolgirls and teachers stuck for a long time inside the inspection booth. We couldn’t understand why. One CPT volunteer initially thought that one teacher was released because we showed up, but that turned out not to be the case. She said they’re being prevented from photographing – only from 50 meters away, sometimes 15 meters, according to the soldiers’ whims – so she asked us to take photographs.
No detainees at the other checkpoints.
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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