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Hebron: The occupation works all the time. There is nothing new in this horror

Place: Hebron
Tags: Updates during Corona
Observers: Hagit Back (report and photos)
Nov-30-2020
| Morning
Hebron: Border Police officers on their way to the H1 area, with photographs in their hands and they did not want to tell us what their mission was.
Hebron: Border Police officers on their way to the H1 area, with photographs in their hands and they did not want to tell us what their mission was.
Photo: Hagit Back

So what else did we see today:

Flying checkpoints and soldiers standing nearly on every junction of road 60.

Hebron is as empty as a ghost town.

A new white-painted fence has been put up on the Prayers’ Road from Kiryat Arba settler-colony to Hebron.

Works are ongoing on ‘disputed house’ and there will be a parking problem there that will bother Palestinians.

At ‘Beit Ha-Machpela’ a porch has been built on the upper floor.

Paratroopers have replaced the Nahal soldiers.

A new Palestinian kindergarten has been constructed near the Prayers’ Road.

Hate graffiti has been written and erased, one slur remains.

The people we met were glad to see us and do not believe in the Corona virus. We were careful.

Besides, no news in this horror.

  • 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:

       

      1. Bet Hameriva CP- manned with a pillbox
      2. Kapisha quarter CP (the northern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      3. The 160 turn CP (the southern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      4. Avraham Avinu quarter - watch station
      5. The pharmacy CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      6. Tarpat (1929) CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      7. Tel Rumeida CP - guarding station
      8. Beit Hadassah CP - guarding station

      Three checkpoints around the Tomb of the Patriarchs

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