It is reported that yesterday the Meitar crossing was opened to the workers and many passed through.

Hebron

At the “ Abed checkpoint” near the Cave of the Patriarchs (the name comes from Abed who has a souvenir shop there where MachsomWatch women have often sat to have coffee and to hear what is happening) Abed shows us that to the left of his store are two more stores which are open. According to Abed, the owner is an employee of the Hebron municipality. But he says he can hardly make a living. The whole line of shops once belonged to his father.

Abed says that Jews who move from Kiryat Arba to Hebron on the prayer route throw stones and dirt at Palestinian homes as they pass by.

Abed’s son is a tour guide (we once heard him on the roof of the family home with one of the pre-military preparatory schools). Now there is no livelihood. His English is excellent. He entered into a conversation with us about the activities of the Roots / Judor in Gush Etzion, settlers meetings with Palestinians: he is in favor of talks between Jews and Palestinians, but not those that normalize the occupation. I agree with him.

On the way out, at the northern exit from Kiryat Arba, on the fence of the vineyard construction area east of the road (on Palestinian land), a long sign with the verse from Jeremiah 15:15:”O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.” The looted Cossacks, (the settlers who are the real thieves, act as if they are really miserable). What particularly bothers me is the location of the sign, in my opinion on purpose – right in front of the camp of the army units (currently, paratroopers). Before their eyes is a verse that educates them that the Jews of Hebron are the persecuted today, and also cultivates in them the desire for revenge, an action that was completely acceptable in the pre-modern world but completely forbidden in a modern democratic world

On the way back, Route 60 between Bani Naim and Beit Hagai: Works at the village of Qilqis.  According to M. It is the Palestinian Authority which regulates the entrance at the junction of the village, including plumbing. We control Area C and continue to take over more and more alnds , but disclaim any responsibility for the Palestinians who live there, sometimes allowing the Palestinian Authority to do something for them…