Hebron and Southern Hills of Hebron, Tuesday 6.12.05, MorningObservers: Nurit S., Hagit B. (reporting)06:30 – 11.30Route 60It’s a foggy morning and the day after the terrorist attack in Nethanya.Sansana: Full closure. No passers-by. Palestinians are employed at the building of the fence. The road along the fence is already paved as well as the crash barrier. The next step is laying the barbed wire. Dura el-Pawar: People cross route 60. The pillbox is manned.Sheep junction and Shiuch-Hebron junction: No military. People cross from one side to the other and from one taxi to the other.Halhul East: The pillbox is manned. Traffic flows.Humanitarian CP: Closed and deserted. Pillbox manned.Karame: Totally blocked. Dahariyya: Blocked.Samoa: Blocked. This part of route 60 is a total apartheid road, apart from a small trickle of taxis. In this war of attrition between the bulldozers that heap up dirt mounds and the Palestinian efforts to find ways to get through the blockades, evidently the bulldozers win. Traffic is very sparse in general and at sideways there are military vehicles. HebronWe faced no problems at the entrance. The guard asked for our ID-s and let us through. In Kiryat Arba we saw big posters calling to organize against removing the 12 families that have settled in the once wholesale market. At half past seven we arrived at the Pharmacy CP. Here the daily demonstrations of the girls, who refuse to go through the scanning installations, on their way to school, continue. It is noteworthy to emphasize, that they can reach school without passing this particular CP. The principal of the El-Ibrhamiya school and the teachers encourage this struggle. Peace activists and TIPH observers and photographers roam around. The soldiers are very restrained in this provocative situation. Palestinians pass in the meantime. Some of them find that the soldiers, who have to restrain themselves in front of the girls, let their anger out on them. Moussa from Betselem (in a conversation afterwards) confirms that that is the case. At eight o’clock the girls disappear and find their way to school. The boys run through the scanning machine, and the little ones are not checked. The boys have to pass the CP in order to reach their school.A patrol of eight soldiers organizes for their 4-5 patrols a day through the empty, deserted streets of Hebron of H2. To Tel-Rumeida CP: The barbed wire on the stairs to Cordoba school has been removed, but still the children are not allowed to use that way, because the stairs are located opposite Beit-Hadassa, and the military says the reason is to avoid contact between both populations. Therefore, the girls have to climb the dangerous stairs!We went up to Tel-Rumeida. The CP was quiet. Very few Palestinians passed. Kasba CP – We went through the gray gate. The soldiers did not detain anyone. In front of Beit Hadassa the usual ambulances with the orange flags parked. They certainly would not take a Palestinian sick person, and Palestinian ambulances, needless to say, are not allowed in this apartheid zone. Visit to Dir-Raza villageThis village is located between Dura el-Pawar junction and Karame. Its houses are on both sides of route 60. 350 families live in it. N’, resident of the village, is a friend of Nurit. We visited the school. The little classes are quiet during the studies. The principal introduces us before the students and says that we struggle for peace. This was new for them, because till now they had encountered only Jewish soldiers. The residents raised their main problems:1. The Civil administration does not give permission for building an extension to the school, because there is not an agreement of a part of the tribe. 2. People are refused receipt of magnetic cards. Some are pressured to collaborate with GSS. Others are refused because some relative of the family is a member of the Islamic Jihad. They have also complaints against the Palestinian police who do nothing to arrest the Jihadists, for fear of the public opinion. 3. Work permits they prefer to request directly from the Israeli DCO instead of the Palestinian, because of corruption.4. Students of the secondary school who have to reach the school in Dura need to cross route 60, and have to walk three km till they can take a taxi to school. All this, because the taxis cannot move on route 60. Taxi drivers from the village agree to take the students to and from school, if they get permits. May be, we will be able to solve this problem.