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Hebron, Wed 12.5.10, Morning

Place: Hebron
Tags: Children Soldiers at checkpoints
Observers: Nurit B. and Netanya (reporting)
May-12-2010
| Morning

Translated by Naomi S.

Guests: Lili from Jerusalem; Fred and Ronie, from Canada.
7:30am we meet our punctual driver, M. at the garage.

Hebron

We drove in Hebron, while Fred took photo after photo. Again, as happened the last time, when we drove there with my niece, Corine, Fred wanted to take photos of the graffiti next to Beit Hadasa on the Shouhada St., the same area where Anat, the aggressive settler lives. Since we saw her car, we decided to follow M. (the driver)'s advice and rode off.

Pharmacy Checkpoint: we stopped next to the boys' school, next to the Pharmacy CP and saw the children walk through uninterrupted by the soldiers.

Lili, our guest, wanted to see what happens inside the booth, where the magnometer, through which the pupils pass, is placed and the soldiers readily allowed her to do so. On the other side, there were two CPT observers, standing. We talked to them. According to them, the situation in Hebron is better when NAHAL (IDF brigade) soldiers are there, as now, compared to past months, when it was Lavie soldiers, of the Kfir Brigade. Although many IDF jeeps can be seen at every corner, everything is now much calmer and quieter in Hebron.

Along the Shouhada St., up to the Tarpat CP, many military vehicles and soldiers can be seen, but there are no detainees. The Patriarchs' cave are is quiet as well. Ofer Ohana (another particularly menacing settler) walks around but isn't disruptive.

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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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