South Hebron, AM
South Hebron 3.6.04 am Observers:Alisa ,Rachel Route 60. A good road, but forbidden to the natives, except for to some trucks here and there — probably carying building materials to the settlements. There was no way to verify that, however.Throughout the road, entrences to villages and towns were blocked. The only passage open to motorvehicles was the El phawar Dura.With few exceptions, there are no signs indicating the names of Palestinian towns and villages. There may be some other signs along the road we might have overlooked (saw a sign to Daharya).It is allowed to cross Route 60, but Palestiniand are forbidden from traveling on it unless they have a special permit, which seems to be given mostly to truck drivers. Some taxi cabs and a few private cars with white liscence plates were also on the road. There were the familiar roadblocks at the Sheep intersection but no army. Pedestrians crossed Route 60 from Hebron’s industrial area to the other side of and back.By Kiryat Arba we saw a white plated tractor riding Route 60, how exciting. At the Hebron Shauch intersection, signed for a change, was an army Jeep staffed with four soldiers. They looked pretty tired and sleepy and were seemed quite indifferent towards us. They left shortly after we arrived and later returned.We stayed in Shauch for a while. People were crossing from there to Hebron by foot. We talked to the Taxi drivers who were congrigating there waiting. It wasn’t quite clear what they were waiting for — the entrance to Hebron was blocked and it was impossible for them to use the road (60). The drivers told us that the army in the Nebi Unis roadblock has been giving them trouble. We wanted to check things out there but didn’t know which area it was A, B, or C On the way back I saw water in one of the wadis. The wadis are usually dry by this time of the year. It looked like sewage. By the time it crossed my mind, we were a distant away from the site and didn’t go back to take another look. We forgot to ask the locals about the water supply from Mekorot. In our visit to the Tarkomia checkpiont on the 31/5 we were told that Mkorot stopped the water supply to the area.
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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