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Three Hebron stories: Two funerals, two white donkeys and one terrorist

Place: Hebron
Tags: Detainees Passage Restrictions Soldiers at checkpoints
Observers: Hagit B and Mohammad, the driver. Translation: Naomi Halsted
Dec-20-2021
| Morning
Hebron: Jewish funeral
Hebron: Jewish funeral
Photo: A local resident in Hebron
On Shuhada Street in Hebron: Cordoba School students
On Shuhada Street in Hebron: Cordoba School students
Palestinians wanted to comfort the family of the Jewish deceased - detained at the checkpoint for 4 hours
Palestinians wanted to comfort the family of the Jewish deceased - detained at the checkpoint for 4 hours
Hebron: Two white donkeys and not a single Messiah
Hebron: Two white donkeys and not a single Messiah

Yesterday, a Jew from Hebron and a Palestinian from Tel Rumeida passed away. For four hours, Palestinians were not allowed through the checkpoints leading to the Jewish cemetery. Only Jews were allowed to pass. The Palestinians who wanted to come to comfort the bereaved family were detained for four hours at the checkpoint. 

Ra’ad filmed the funeral from his home. Today, we drank coffee with him. Naturally a gentle man, he’s angry. There’s not much we can do about it.

We stopped to talk to children in the street. One of them asked Mohammad, the driver, where he’s from. Mohammad replied that he’s from Beersheva. The child was amazed: “Aren’t you afraid to ride with a Jewish woman?”

Abed, who owns a shop opposite the Cave of the Patriarchs, told me that last Thursday (December 16) around noon, by the Cave in the Muslim area of the plaza, a woman in her late 60s took a knife for peeling apples out of her pocket and placed it on the coat of a settler who was passing by and immediately lay down on the asphalt. “Terrorist, terrorist,” shouted the soldiers. The woman was evacuated on a stretcher. The settler’s nose was bleeding.

What did the woman want?

Why was the area closed to Palestinians afterwards?

The god of the occupation knows the answers. 

 

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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:

       

      1. Bet Hameriva CP- manned with a pillbox
      2. Kapisha quarter CP (the northern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      3. The 160 turn CP (the southern side of Zion axis) - manned with a pillbox
      4. Avraham Avinu quarter - watch station
      5. The pharmacy CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      6. Tarpat (1929) CP - checking inside a caravan with a magnometer
      7. Tel Rumeida CP - guarding station
      8. Beit Hadassah CP - guarding station

      Three checkpoints around the Tomb of the Patriarchs

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