Back from a day at Hebron the city feels more like a fortress than a city it is crazy. Each city in the West Bank has A, B & C areas. The A area is Palestenian controlled, B is basically a no mans land controlled by both & C is Israeli controlled. Before I came I assumed that the seperation wall surrounded the West Bank, however the wall also goes into the West Bank & snakes within that area as well. The Palestinians have been forced into the West Bank but it seems like the Israeli government is trying to choke the Palestenian population out completely. As I said now even with in the West Bank Palestenians can not travel freely. Furthermore they are sequestering more areas within the West Bank Israeli settlers that Palestinians can not even travel. There are 750 checkpoints located throughout the West Bank. It is so bizarre coming from a peaceful nation like Canada & you are told if you walk past that line you will get shot. There really is no messing around here.
For instance we Hebron is a city of 166 000 and 4000 Israelis has Israeli soldiers protecting it. We passed through Cave of the Patriarchs is the second holiest site for Jews after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and is also venerated important to Christians & Muslims as that the site is supposedly the burial place of Adam & Eve as well as Abraham & Sarah. We were not allowed in today. there are checkpoints outside the church because in 1994 a Jewish settler went in at Muslim prayer time with an assault rifle & killed 29 Muslims at prayer & injured another 125. We also passed through many checkpoints & I thought I was being stealth with my camera taking some video as I was walking away the soldier yelled ‘Hey Come here!’ so I walk over to him I thought this is it my camera is getting confiscated, he said ‘You can’t take pictures at checkpoints’ & let me go.He was polite about it & supose he has a job to do. In Israel virtually the entire country are soldiers. Every citizen must serve 3 years in the military (2 for women) and up to one month a year after that.
We have these tiny little kittens here (Krusti & Whitey) at Karama with no Mom so we’ve been feeding them with a dropper
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