South Hebron Sunday morning, 20 June 2004 Observers: Nomi S., Ya’ara T, Ya’el T. (reporting) 6:40 AM: We set out from the Shoqet junction, in the car with [our driver] T. At the entrance to Meitar: an Israeli police car stood and stopped a resident from Lakia (as T. told us) driving a pickup truck from the direction of Hebron, and checked his license. Shim’a junction : Many parked cars of IDF Reserves soldiers, but the soldiers by the barrier seemed young, not reservists. They were not familiar with MachsomWatch, but were polite, examined IDs of us all, and let us through. Dura – Al-Fawwar junction – The barriers are open; free traffic of cars and taxis from both sides. Yatta-Hebron (“Sheep”) junction – No people were observed crossing the road. No sign of army presence either. Do people go to work at a later hour in the school summer vacation?Along the Hwy #60, traffic was sparse in general, and aside from one IDF truck transporting soldiers, we saw no other military vehicles. Shiuch-Sa’ir junction: As usual, there was a gathering of taxi-drivers. One of them recognized us from previous times. They told, that the road to Bethlehem is open and that workmen leave on Saturdays and return home on Thursdays. Sunday the traffic is sparse. At the entrance to the village, that’s been blocked off by a stone barrier, soldiers have left a narrow passage, wide enough only for one person, for pedestrians to enter and exit the village. The previous week, the passage had been wider. A driver told us that sometimes the soldiers open and inspect the bundles of the laborers going out to work or coming home. On our way back we did not notice any soldiers at the junction.Entrance to Hwy #35: – No soldiers at the barrier, and free traffic of cars to Tarqumiya. Hebron-Halhul bridge: Movement unrestricted to and from Hebron. The barrier on the road going up to the overpass from Hwy #35 was closed. Taxi-drivers who saw our car parked below, realized that the barrier was closed. We understood this means that sometimes the barrier is open.A military jeep was parked beside the overpass. The soldiers made a random inspection of some drivers’ licenses. Sometimes they also searched inside a vehicle’s baggage compartment. Zif junction – The barrier is open; we observed no one passing.On the Carmel-Ma’on road we encountered no traffic whatsoever. Near the Green Line [border between Israel and Territories] soldiers are posted at exit roads. Seems that there is no one to inspect.We returned to the Shoqet junction at 8:30 AM.