The cameras at Tel Rumeida
Residents of the Hebron neighborhood in Tel Rumeida are already used to being photographed 24 hours a day by army cameras. They themselves also installed cameras in their homes to document the settlers’ abuse. Only this time we received phone calls about a camera installed there, which is very disturbing to them. This is a camera installed by the settlers in the public area, next to the military cameras. They have a very hard feeling with the invasion of their privacy beyond what the military is doing anyway. They have asked an officer in the Civil Administration to remove the camera. The officer refused their request on the pretext that they also had cameras in their homes. They asked for our help. We turned to MK Musi Raz to see what he could do.
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
Lea ShakdielMay-27-2025Hebron, settlers vandalized the sign of the girls' school
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