We passed the Tarkumiya checkpoint. The number of trucks passing through the checkpoint is very small. One of the truck drivers reported to us that there are not many trucks going to Gaza, the donations fron the Occupied Territories are getting smaller and smaller. Until this month, three trucks a week passed through.

There are no workers, no work, no money, no donations. This week, only one truck is going to Gaza with food and related equipment.

These are the closed gates we observed on the way:

Tarkumiya

The entrance to Hebron

Halhul-Hebron

Shuyukh-Hebron

Especially delicious grapes and figs are sold along the way. These days there are no buyers and anyone who stops by the stalls is greeted with great joy and brings hope.

Yusuf Jaber informs us that this morning at 09:30 a shop that operated across the road was destroyed in front of his house (main entrance to Kiryat Arba). The store was established seven years ago.

Rania from Fuqiqis reports on the phone that the sheep of the settler who harasses them are always in their yard and, of course, without permission. Rania’s family calls the police and reports the intrusion into their olive grove. The police promise on the phone to come and check, no one comes.