Hebron, Sansana (Meitar Crossing), South Hebron Hills

The sun was shining and the almond trees were blooming and the barricades were piled up.

We first went to Hebron.

For a long time we have not seen our friends and only spoke to them on the phone. I met Idris in the yard of his house (I'm already ten days after having received the second dose of the vaccine). Idris tells us how bad things are. Many Covid 19 patients are in the hospitals where there is no treatment for them. There are many deaths and the financial situation is very bad

A Jewish friend from Jerusalem visited him about two weeks ago, asked him for a list of 20 families in distress, went into a grocery store and prepared 20 boxes of food worth 250 shekels each. He paid in cash and Idris distributed the packages to the family. 

According to him, there is no financial assistance from the PA. Also he describes a picture of a very complicated internal relationship in the PA and of the corruption there. He said people who create  provocations in front of the military are well rewarded by the Palestinian Authority and happily take the money. They also do so  from sheer financial necessity.  Even when funds are received for the entire neighborhood, they remain in the hands of 2-3 people and are not distributed to the entire neighborhood. I will not go into details of course and I will not judge God forbid. What is clear is that the age-old "divide and rule" method is also very successful here

All shops are closed except those selling necessities. Schools are closed.

The people on the street walk around without masks.

The army base that was on Shuhada Street in front of the cemetery was almost completely dismantled. It is probably only a matter of time until the settlers begin to build a residential neighborhood there. Now the paratroopers are there.

On the way back on Route 356 we saw that again piles of dirt were clogging and blocking agricultural roads. The photo shows the barricade about 200 meters from the intersection of Road 356 and Road 60.

When we returned, we photographed the workers entering through a gap in the fence near the Meitar checkpoint. Everything is visible in daylight in the middle of the day. This time there were no soldiers or policemen there either. Nor does it appear that there is any intention to close the loophole.

A fence built with the investment of billions on the pretext of security necessity has been hacked and deliberately not repaired (so as to allow the workers to reach Israel, most of whom have not received any vaccinations and have maybe come from villages which are exposed to the illness. They are necessary to the building industry especially). 

The Jewish genius apparently was left in the Diaspora.