South Hebron Hills
We passed through the Negohot A and B and Negohot checkpoint and agriculture. The settlement is expanding within Area C and added many agricultural areas: vineyards and olives and a large building (picture attached).
In Hursa they report additional checkpoints and rolling checkpoints, and there is a sign at the checkpoint gate that there is no permission to pass through the shortest and most convenient route so as to get past the checkpoint.
The soldiers from the pillbox ordered the residents to inform them of every incident at the Divan (the meeting place for parties next to a pillbox in the grove). The villagers decided not to do so as the divan belongs to them and they do not want to report events which take place inside the village.
The entrance to ‘Abda, next to the pillbox is opened. The gate, which was closed for a long time, was opened Sunday and Monday this week, closed Tuesday and Wednesday and today reopened.
Logic??? Unclear … not understandable.
Towards the beginning of Ramadan, the roads are crowded.
Ramdan Karim!
Health and comfort.
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
Raya YeorMay-15-2025No-traffic signs around Dahariya
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