Sansana (Meitar Crossing), South Hebron Hills

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Observers: 
Ariela and M. Translator: Natanya
Jul-28-2020
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Morning

Following a phone call about settlers invading the Kafisha family home near Rachel and Leah House, near the Cave of the Patriarchs, we decided to go to Hebron. The days are the eve of the Feast of Sacrifice. Many cars are parked at the Meitar checkpoint and also along the road.

On Route 60 there is almost no traffic and most of the cars are Palestinian, probably due to the Feast of Sacrifice which is near. We did not see checkpoints or an army all the way to Hebron. The sheep market at the time we passed (10.45) was already coming to an end

Unlike previous years, the streets in Hebron on the eve of the holiday were deserted, as if a plague had broken out in the city. The checkpoints in the city, such as the pharmacy checkpoint and checkpoint 160, also looked abandoned. Up the road to Tel Rumeida a boy pushed an older woman sitting in a wheelchair. The right to drive on this street is for Jews only.

We tried to look for someone on the street who witnessed or knew about the invasion of the Kafisha family home. We found not far away, on a nearby street, about five minutes walk away, someone who told us that getting from his place to the area of ​​Rachel and Leah (5 minutes walk) would take him about an hour because he had to go through so many checkpoints so he did not come and saw, but he says that the Kafisha family suffers a lot from the settlers' children.

In Tel Rumeida, we saw the memorial plaque that the family of David Golobencic, who was killed by our own forces, placed on the fence of the home of a Palestinian family where he was killed.

Kiryat Arba is having a  construction boom. The Nofei Kramim neighborhood greets us and at the exit from Kiryat Arba through the industrial area, the sign in the picture greeted us "We bought, we returned, now we are building." When I got out of the car to take a picture of the sign, the guards came out to check on me. I told them I was just filming the sign. They did not even know what was written on the sign. They put it on to shade the guard post.

We returned via Route 317. In the woods, in front of the Susiya settlement, stand five new caravans. According to M., a month ago there was only one trailer and two months ago there was only a tent.

Work on the water line continues. It is not enough that the water line is not intended for Palestinians either, but the bulldozers in their work have destroyed a part of one of the Palestinians' seasonal organic farming.

Back to the Meitar checkpoint. The parking lot is still full and the horrible smell that rises from the effluent of the Hebron River continues to accompany you for a long time to come.