Jimba - confiscating cars without reason

10 am: At the Meitar crossing, a vehicle with a Palestinian license plate is on the Israeli side. Muhammad explains that this is a businessman who has permission to enter Israel with his car.

Right to road 60, and from there to the right to road 317, from the Meitar industrial area, along the road on the right, you see a pipe that draws water to the new vineyard of the settler,  Yinon,  who joins the other settler,  Kaplan,  in bullying Abu Safi and his neighbour, who has already sold Kaplan his sheep and the hut. He left because he was afraid for his young children, and anyway the land was not his. Abu Safi, on the other hand, does own his land, yet it seems that after one hundred and twenty, his children will sell everything to Kaplan and leave. The practice of bullying in the service of the policy of ethnic cleansing is indeed successful, albeit slowly, as we unfortunately see in other places in the West Bank.

On the right, a road leading to the settlements, Shani and Livne, a checkpoint and soldiers. Muhammad or other Israeli Arabs cannot pass, so I will try to drive here myself one day. Jews, of course, can transfer goods there and anything they want.

After the last attack at the Sheep Junction, soldiers are seen along the road guarding every intersection, and even two soldiers at the bus station of the Susiya settlement, guarding two boys who are trying to catch a ride.

At-Tuwani, a visit to Bassel for an update on yesterday. I would like to point out that I am the second person among us who has fallen when entering his house. All of you are asked to take extra caution when entering the rickety houses. Also, to our knowledge, we asked the treasurer of MachsomWatch and found that the organization does not have insurance that covers the damages caused to the volunteers during the shifts.

Yesterday the activists were called to the village of Jimba, and there a routine activity took place: an inspector of the Civil Administration tows confiscated cars for no specific reason, of course accompanied by the army. The damage to the fabric of life is serious - food for the animals and all other goods now have to be brought with donkeys, a big hassle, and a waste of a lot of time, and this is intentional. Also, the confiscated car can only be redeemed for a fine of thousands of shekels, and only after about a month, from the Gush Etzion police station, located in a compound on the northern border of Beitar Illit, in front of Hussan, that is - far away.

There is a vehicle borrowed in the meantime for the purpose of transporting students to school from various villages (not from Umm Tuba, from where, as I recall, there are soldiers escorting the children going to and from school). These days, the possibility of transferring money from excess donations of MachsomsWatch, so that a car can be bought is being examined, a bureaucratic problem of transferring money from one association to another.

Continue north and then connect back to Route 60, west and south. At the site of the last attack, there are two squares, one after the other, both blocked by the army and careful checks of every vehicle are carried out.  In the more western square, where you turn right towards Hebron, a large blue metal Star of David has been placed and it seems as if a monument will one day appear there.

Also, further on, in the square of Qilqis, on both sides are soldiers, and long lines of cars that are slowly being inspected. And also, at the intersection after Beit Hagai, facing right (north) to Hebron, soldiers are slowly checking vehicles. Route 60 curves to the left (south), on the top of the hill above Beit Hagai a large Israeli flag flies.