South Hebron Hills
I drove to Kibbutz Harel on Friday to load equipment for the kindergarten that was offered by Ruthi Ristik.
On Sunday we loaded all the equipment into Mohammad's car and drove to the kindergarten in Zif.
06:17 – We left the Shoket junction and drove to the Meitar crossing.
There were dozens of cars waiting to collect workers on the Israeli side. On the Palestinian side four people were detained for attempting to get to the front of the line. When the line of people had all crossed, they received permits and were allowed to cross. According to the international observers, more than 5,000 people crossed between 04:00 and 06:46.
One of the vendors in the stalls explains that despite the fact that the stalls had been moved back from the road, three people had their cars confiscated and were fined NIS 2,000. He had no document that showed that a fine had been paid or why.
Next to the settlement of Asael we saw barrels that had been placed there in order to set up additional house trailers.
We continued on to Zif and people were pleased to receive thousands of Shekels' worth of equipment for the kindergarten.
We will deliver more equipment next week.
We saw the last vehicle leave the parking lot at 08:55 taking workers to work, and there were no more rides after that.
South Hebron Hills
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South Hebron Hills
South Hebron Hills is a large area in the West Bank's southern part.
Yatta is a major city in this area: right in the border zone between the fertile region of Hebron and its surroundings and the desert of the Hebron Hills. Yatta has about 64,000 inhabitants.
The surrounding villages are called Masafer Yatta (Yatta's daughter villages). Their inhabitants subsist on livestock and agriculture. Agriculture is possible only in small plots, especially near streams. Most of the area consists of rocky terraces.Since the beginning of the 1980s, many settlements have been established on the agricultural land cultivated by the Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills region: Carmel, Maon, Susia, Masadot Yehuda, Othniel, and more. Since the settlements were established and Palestinians cultivation areas have been reduced; the residents of the South Hebron Hills have been suffering from harassment by the settlers. Attempts to evict and demolish houses have continued, along with withholding water and electricity. The military and police usually refrain from intervening in violent incidents between settlers and Palestinians do not enforce the law when it comes to the investigation of extensive violent Jewish settlers. The harassment in the South Hebron Hills includes attacking and attempting to burn residential tents, harassing dogs, harming herds, and preventing access to pastures.
There are several checkpoints in the South Hebron Hills, on Routes 317 and 60. In most of them, no military presence is apparent, but rather an array of pillboxes monitor the villages. Roadblocks are frequently set up according to the settlers and the army's needs. These are located at the Zif Junction, the Dura-al Fawwar crossing, and the Sheep Junction at the southern entrance to Hebron.
Updated April 2022
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