Al Nashshash, Etzion DCL, Mon 17.12.07, Morning

Place:

Etzion DCO

Al Nashshash

Tags:

DCO (District Coordination Offices)

Observers:

Haya A., Idit S., Ada G. (reporting)

Dec-17-2007

Morning

Road No 60, Neve Yunis, Etzion DCL

Hussan : at the entry to Hussan there are military jeeps, hummers, and also an ambulance coming out of the village. We don’t have information about any particular activity.

07.50 Nashash : a very large number of vehicle traffic and a few people ask us for help with dealing with the police burocracy.

08.30 Beit Omer : People ask for us to help them to deal with police documents.

09.10 Neve Yunis : lively vehicle traffic; a bulldozer is working a few tens of meters form road No 60. According to the Palestinians, a gas station is being built there.

09.30 Etzion DCL : almost empty and there are no vehicles in the parking area. Six Palestinians have been waiting for the GSS since early morning. When will they come ? No-one knows. A Palestinian comes out of the DCL, happy that he has received a magnetic card, with Sylvia’s help – many thanks and praises to her for this. Another Palestinian came out very frustrated : he has a valid work permit, but at the checkpoint he is directed to the Etzion DCL and there they sent him to the Hebron DCL. No-one tells him why he was refused passage. Another man is sent back from the Allenby bridge on his way out of Israel. He is on the GSS “denied” list and for the last two months he has been going in and out of the GSS offices, without success.

People come to ask for health permits and are sent to the Palestinian civil coordination office in Bethlehem. They are not acquainted with the relatively new procedure and are upset by the disappointment and run- around that they are experiencing. A few young men come out – they have received magnetic cards.

Location Description

Al Nashshash

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Junction on Road 60 from leading to the southern outskirts of al-Khader, to Salomon pools and to Bethlehem. Until 2015, a blockade at the junction prevented the passage of vehicles from the south (from Hebron) to Bethlehem and from there to the north of the West Bank and vice versa, and a small market developed at the junction, with taxis serving both directions on two sides of the blockage. Until 2015, Members of MachsomWatch police reports team would come to the scene to receive and return traffic violations reports for payment (possible only in Israel).- from Palestinians without a entrance permit to Israel. There is usually no military or police supervision i n place.

Etzion DCO

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serves residents of Bethlehem and surrounding villages who need magnetic cards, work permits for Israel, permits for one-time entry for religious or health reasons, various police permits, etc.