South Hebron Hills
South Hebron Hills, Monday 1.5.06, AMObservers: Luta (a geust) Michal Z,Chagit B:( Reporting)9.00–14.00The report is on the main events.It is the holiday of May the first, we see families working in the fields, only with primitive equipment because of the road barrier its the only way.RamadinAs we arrived the people gathered around us to tell their hardships. The blue police fined them, they have to pay at Ras Elamud but they can’t get permit to go there because they are “prevented to get a police permit” it is one of the means to control the Palestine’s. Another problem: they don’t know what happened to their relatives who disappeared near Beth Lehem we phoned to Noam who told us that they are detained at the DCO at Etzion until the trial on 06. 05.Tawani: It was a solidarity visit, they told us that H’ is detained because he was mad at the security forces who didn’t let his old mother to cross the barriers.They said that every Saturday many settlers gather at Maon and attack the children on the way to school.Halhul- Hebron bridgethe soldiers came down the pillbox and shouted at us not to park there, they didn’t stop until we left.Hebron- the pharmacy checkpointI am going to tell you a very horrible event that I havn’t seen since I started to go to Hebron.As we arrived to the place we so a old woman lying on the floor screaming , the soldiers didn’t pay any attention at her. I went down to help her and Luta who is a nurse checked and found out she had a very high blood pressure and swollen veins. The soldiers didn’t let people to get near except a photographer with a big kipa. We insisted that they call an ambulance which arrived only after 20 minutes as they put the woman inside her son came and wanted to join her the soldiers didn’t let him and started to beat him they stopped only as the Captain came and told him that the son attacked them. We told him the whole story and also convinced him to let the ambulance move, he is only going to Hebron hospital and not to an Israeli as they thought. During the whole time the soldiers and settlers were yelling and threatening us. We didn’t go to the rest of the checkpoints because we were afraid the settlers will attack us.
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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ramadin
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Ramadin and Arab al-Furijat, were established in the suburbs of Dahariya by Bedouins who came from the Be'er Sheva area after 1948. The village of Ramadin, numbers about 6,000 people, is located on the eastern side of the separation barrier. The checkpoint that was established at the entrance to the village (crossing by list only) to prevent passage to Israeli territory was removed in October 2007, and the road to the Meitar checkpoint leading to Israel is open.
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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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