Hawwara
Hawwara,Tuesday 30.8.2005, morningWatchers: Aharona M. Ninette B. Dina A. (reporting)Natanya translating. A usual frustrating day.7.50 Crossroads at Tapuach: short lines in each direction.8.05 Hawarra North: A strong flow of pedestrians entering and leaving Nablus. There are many soldiers and the passage is fast …they say they have been there since 5 a.m. At 8.30 a transit with a sick child arrives hooting loudly. The father leaves his id with the soldier and promises to be back in an hour and the soldier says that he will not delay them if it takes longer. At 8.45 three people from Hebron are checked and freed at 9.30. Little traffic from both directions passing quickly. The X-RAY device Car helps to speed the process up, and buses take about 15 minutes to check.At first young people are checked at random as they go into Nablus but at 10.00 an order is received to check everyone. 3 soldiers do the work and at times there is a heavy load. We ask why and are told it is not the decision of the soldiers but from higher up and is meant to break the routine so as to wake the soldiers and the Palestinians up but also maybe there is someone suspicious around . This continues after we leave at 11. A group of tourists, monks and nuns, want to enter Nablus which is forbidden to stranger but eventually are allowed through on foot.2 people from Hebron are detained, the woman from El Najag university . She has been detained for four hours and we are told that there is a reason for this. We phone the DCO and tell them that she cannot be detained for so long and within a short while she is freed.At the southern checkpoint there is as usual much confusion, traders and taxis, While we are there the blue police arrive and tell them to remove their goods from the vicinity of the checkpoint.11.00 Beit Furik: Empty.We go back through Git and there is no sign of the checkpoint which was there two weeks ago but many military and police vehicles.
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
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