Hebron: "We don't have Corona, but in India they're suffering"
Ramadan. Hot. No one who doesn’t actually need to work goes outside. People are fatigued and the usual uplifting of spirits that comes with the Ramadan is non-existent.
We didn’t enter people’s homes, but spoke with them only on the street and in grocery stores.
What we heard:
There’s no Corona, poor people of India.
There are no elections. Abu Mazen is both right and annoying at the same time.
Not enough permits are given for prayer in the El Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
This week in Hebron they’ve not heard of altercations with settlers.
On highway 60, just a bit before the El Pawar junction, soldiers generally guard the pool by the spring.
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
Yael ZoranSep-24-2026Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs from Beit Hashalom
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