South Hebron
South Mount Hebron and Hebron, Monday, 5/01/2007 amObservers: Tsipi Z, Hagit B (reporting) Guests: Sarit, Raya, Naomi, Eilat, Yehudit, Tami (Machsom Watch team from Tel Aviv)0900 to 1300 We were in the following locations: Tarqumiya, Tarqumiya Idna, Halhoul Hebron Bridge, the humanitarian checkpoint, the girls’ school, Shiuch Sair, Hebron – Pharmacy Checkpoint, Tel Romeida Checkpoint, the checkpoints at the Machpela Cave, the checkpoint at Mount Haharsina, Sheep Crossing, Dura al Fuar, Sensar Checkpoint, Meitar crossing. At all these locations there were very few people and almost no movement . It is like the area has been abandoned, and it was cold. Along the blockades of Route 60 and the length of Road 35 there were very few people crossing, and those that crossed had to suffer the usual barely humane conditions. At Shiuch Shuir: There were two border police vehicles and one blue police jeep, a rolling checkpoint that stopped one Palestinian car and submitted it to an excessively pedantic search – the Palestinian told me that he was there only five minutes. I left him my telephone number but he did not call me. Sheep crossing: An army jeep with soldiers who were sitting in it. Here is the occupation in its dreary routine, in wintry and cold conditions. All the time I am asking myself, where is everyone?
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
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