South Hebron Hills
South Hebron hills and Hebron 7.2.06 AMWatchers: Bruria R. (New), Michal Z., Hagit B. (Reporting)10:30-14.30Summary: Occupation routine, almost no traffic of people – where are they all? The blocks are kept meticulously, the Bulldozer is running on the road accompanied by the Hammer.Pedestrians – women and children, cross the roads or walk. No wonder the Palestinians are slim and in shape.Sansana CP – Almost no traffic or people. Rammadin CP – 2 cars cross, BP is maintaining the CP: 3 men and a woman.Separation barrier works – almost finished.Road 317Widening works on the road. Kongo CP: They are widening and enlarging it. Reserve soldiers are occupying the place. They fenced a peace of land with barbed wire and we find there 2 detainees, waiting for the Police. The soldiers suspect the car they were driving, with no number on, is a stolen car. They have been waiting for an hour now, and will wait more…Beit Yatir CP: This is the CP that was moved very close to the separation barrier and is supposed to observe Beit Yatir. Well, before Beit Yatir there is a village and only the village habitants are allowed in it. Every morning there is a problem letting the teachers in. The head of the municipality, who came a few days ago with an American diligence bringing medicines, was not allowed in. Full apartness. The Army paved the road entering the village so that it is necessary to pass through the CP in order to get into the village.We will try to take care of the problem – it is possible to arrange it differently.Hirbet Tawany – Today the news about the episode in Saturday came out – settlers attacked soldiers who are accompanying the children to school. We got some tea and heard about the teachers’ problems – they come from Yatta and are not allowed to pass with their cars and have to walk to the school. We’ll try to take care of it tomorrow.Carmel settlement – the building works are advancing. Road 356The Pillbox on the road is being enlarged –Are they planning a bigger camp? The army is enlarging its hold. The cameras are working as usual.Zif crossroads is blocked and we see from the car many people holding Hamas flags walking on the road. We ask for the reason and find that it is a demonstration against Denmark. An army car is coming and the soldiers fire a few shots in the air. The soldiers leave the place. We are leaving too.HebronEmpty and depressing. In Tel Rumeyda CP – Para shooters, In the Pharmacy CP – armored brigades, it is not possible to get to the Kasba CP – it is locked and the gate is very tall. The children who came back from school with their teachers went with no problems. The market is deserted. In the CP of the Machpela Cave our Arabic driver is not allowed to get down. Turns out that according to Shamgar investigating committee, inside the 100 m2 of the parking lot Jews and Muslims are not allowed together. Until today no one said a word about it. We did not want to separate and came back to the car.Road 60All is blocked as usual. Pedestrians are walking back to back. At Dura el Fuar the traffic is flowing and the pillbox is manned.
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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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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