South Hebron, 15.12.04, AMwatchers: Hagit (reporting Hebrow) Shnonit (reporting Englush)Road 317 – in the turn to Shani and Livneh in Yatir forest – permanent buildings are built to the barrier. Reserve Duty Company occupies the barrier. No Palestinian traffic. As usual, the dust mounds are muddy and high. There are signs of maybe opening the east entrance to Samoah – a bulldozer works there – on the other hand, it might be in order to block the entrance in a better way. Next time we’ll know… in addition we saw a doe jumping over all the mounds.Road 356 – Zeef junction – the yellow gate is open. Road 60 – all the passageways are open, no military vehicles (Dura Al Fawar, the ships junction, Shayuch-Sair, Halhul east)Really light traffic on the road, but relatively more yellow taxies. Only few military vehicles. All the fieldboxes are occupied. In any case – what does the army do? In Hirbet Tawani we witnessed again the absurd sight of the military escort of the five children going to school, along with police car escorting too. Apparently the crazy settlers from the grove are afraid when there is police and not going out. The soldiers are now escorting by walk, so the kids don’t run after the jeep anymore (our pleas to commander helped). The soldiers are now like fathers to young children…In the humanitarian barrier – Al Jura barrier – imaginary sight. In the Hebron side three fancy cars and people with fancy suits standing. Appernately they are from Jordan Bank in Hebron and they are waiting for people from Hamizrahi bank to come from the other side of the barrier. Money transference is about to happen. The amazing thing was that the military jeep, which stands there is aimed to secure that transference, they are used as the local “Brinks” representatives. The soldiers, one month from release, are fantasizing on south America and the money that will arrive (just kidding) and they are also aware the great absurd. Hebron – officers of the border guard are securing the “Me’arat Hmachpela” area. The Nahal soldiers securing the Jewish quarter and the Hebron area.the sign in the entrance of the base was changed from “lethal in air, sea and land” to “the amletsim from basalt”. Soldiers are going around with weapons drawn in the Shuhada Street, which is abandoned by its Palestinians residents. The soldiers are telling that they are guarding the Palestinians’ houses from young settlers’ children that are throwing rocks on their windows. Only yesterday a group of girls broke these windows (who will pay for replacing the windows?). we see a young boy throwing matches at a gas station, he sees us and stops, while the ducks over there are lowing. The Casba is almost empty, and all the quarter of the market – 78 stores closed and welded. Ghost city – literally. On our way back, the guard of Kiriyat Arba who is asking for identity cards stops us. He has no right to do that and only because our driver is arabic he asked it. Hagit is refusing to do so and the guard attacks her, pushing her and threatening to shoot her. The security coordinator of Kiriyat Arba arrives, he asures us that he has no problems with us and he’ll let us go in whenever we’d like. It was definitely irritating situation.Elections – S’ from Hirbet Tawani tells that there are no difficulties in Yata, and a humble elections propaganda is going on. He says that everyone will vote for Abu Mazen. He asks us to be there in the Election Day to help asure that everyone will actually can come and vote. We entered the girls’ school in Shayuch Sair to ask about the elections. The principal told that there are no problems in hebron with the propaganda. She told us that the Election Day will be holiday in schools. The ballot boxes will be in the boys’ school in Shayuch. She also asked us to come to asure the freedom of traffic that day. The soldiers didn’t know anything about the elections.