South Hebron and Hebron, Monday 28/11/05 AMObservers: Noa B., Shay D (visitor) Mira B (reports Hebrew) 6.40-11.30Route 60Sansana: 7 workers with permits are waiting to be checked.Samoa: The road is blocked.Otniel: To our great surprise- 3 people are waiting for a liftDaharia: The gate is open but the road is blocked by boalders.Carame: Children are walking along the road on the way to schoolDura- El pawar: The raod is open, soldiers are seen in the tower. On our way back there was a temporary check point behind the cross.Old entrance to Hebron: A hammer parkingSheep J.: Open to pedestriansBeni Naim – Closed by dust piles and stones.Shyuch – Sair: Open to pedestrians. The dust piles at the girls’ school side were raised, the girls have to climb them up.Humanitarian CP on route 35 is closed.HebronThere were no problems getting into Kiriat Arba.The Pharmacy CP: 40-50 children, most of them boys, shouting and pushing the blockade. On the other side the soldiers are pointing their gun towards the boys. Press reporters are all over and so are the people from TIPH and CPT. Small stones are thrown and the children try to climb up the fences over the CP so as not to pass through the magnometer. The soldiers are calm.This is the only CP with a magnometer, the children know they can pass through Abu Snina CP without being scaned. When the situation warms up, a jeep with an officer arrives but he doesn’t do much. We try to call Hebron Police and they refuse to take responsibility. We call Yehuda brigade and speak with the battalion’s officer G. We ask him to let the children pass one between the soldiers so as to calm the situation. The officer tells me that the children come to this CP on purpose to force conflict and the army is not going to give up. At 8.30 the press leaves, a teacher from the girls’ school arrives and takes all the girls trough the magnometer. The boys pass as well. Tel Rumyda: We met Merry, an Australian volunteer who was bitten last week by 3 jewish girls from Hebron while she was trying to protect Palestinian boys from being abused by those girls. She was on her way to report about it in the local police. Further on we met a Palestinian doctor whose clinic is up the hill. He told us how hard it is to survive as Palestinians within Israeli zone. ( Tel Rumyda is a Palestinian subarb ruled by a small minority of jews living on the top of the hill).A friendly soldier stops us and do not let us approach the settlers’ area although it is legal.Kasba: One detainee is released 20 minutes after we arrive. A settler spit when he sees us.Abraham’s area: The friendly soldiers tell us that only 2 families were left in their houses around.Machpela: We were invited for coffee by one of the shop keepers there. It was the first time we realized that only Israelis are allowed around the square, Palestinians have to make a great detour thourgh the Shuhada rd. so as to approach the cave.