South Hebron, AM
South Hebron. Tuesday, 26.8.04, AMObservers: Leah Y.[Hebrew], Fran M., Zafrira A. [English]We left Tel Shoket at 7.00 on Rd 607.30: Checkpony Shim’a was manned as usual and the soldiers wished us good morning and let us through.Hardly any traffic on the road – one Israeli bus with a few settlers and two Israeli cars.7.40 El Fawar-Dura crossing was open to cross to rd 60.Sheeps crossing is still closed to traffic. A few pedestrians walked across. Shiuch to Hebron closed to traffic.7.50 The “humanitarion” gate is closed and a bulldozer is scraping the sides.Halhul-Hebron bridge is open , no visible soldiers and cars were crossing freely in both directions. As we left a hummer parked on the path leading to the bridge, but the soldiers did not get out.Rd 3568.05 Yakinton barrier manned by soldiers of gdud Lavie, who told us that there had been several transits and vans mostly heading for the Beduin market ib Beer Sheva. Anyone with the appropriate documentation had been allowed to pass. No traffic while we were there.Ziv junction.The gate to Yatta is openRd 317 The earthworks are as usual and the crossing from El Tawani to Yatta has had the earthwork raised. We saw two Palestinian cars trying to reach the road lower down via a dirt road.9.30 Returned to Tel Shoket after a quiet morning
Halhul-Hebron Bridge
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Generally allows free flowing traffic, except for sudden checks by soldiers stationed permanently in the pillbox, on Route 35 in the southern West Bank.
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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
Raya YeorDec-18-2025Hebron - Yusri Jaber and part of his family
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