Violation: setting up a metal gate

Date: December 07, 2017

Location: Abda village- Hebron governorate

Perpetrators:  the Israeli Occupation Forces

Victims: Palestinian citizens

 

Details:

The Israeli Occupation Forces set up on December 07, 2017 a metal gate at the entrance of Abda village, south Dura town in Hebron governorate as a step of closure.

Eyewitnesses said that a vehicle arrived to the location with a force from the occupation army and installed the gate at the entrance. Reportedly, this step aims at restricting Palestinians' movement on daily basis.

Photos 1-2: the new metal gate

It should be noted that the entrance is considered a linking point between the bypass road number 60 and other villages and towns neighboring Abda. More than 15,000 residents of neighboring areas will be affected due to the closure. They will have to take substitute road that cost more and are more fatiguing to reach their daily destinations.

Reportedly, the occupation forces closed the entrance of the village many times through earth mounds and road blocks but this is the first time they use metal gates.

Israeli Occupation Forces set up the metal gates in a step to harass and restrict movement of Palestinians in Hebron governorate. It should be marked that the metal gates came in place of dirt mounds and cement blocks, which were previously used to seal off the entrances .They seek to control gates at all times. By one solider at the gate, closure became easier than setting up cement blocks. In case of reinforcing the closure, the occupation sets up dirt mounds to ban Palestinian from bypassing the gate.

 

 

The following table illustrates the locations of metal gates in Hebron :

		Location of gate	Links
	Ad-Dhahiriya town	Rabud village	Bypass road no. 60	Ad-Dhahiriya town
	Dura town	Al-Fuwwar junction	Bypass road no. 60	Dura town
	Al-Fawwar refugee camp	Al-Fuwwar junction	Bypass road no. 60	Al-Fawwar refugee camp
	Susiya village	West of the villag		Yatta town
	Yatta town	Zif junction	Road number 317	Yatta town
	Al-Samou' town		Bypass road no. 60	Al-Samou' town
	Beit Einun village	Beit Einun junction	Bypass road no. 60	Beit Einun village
	Beit Einun junction	Beit Einun junction	Bypass road no. 60	Hebron city
	Beit Ummar town	The town's entrance	Bypass road no. 60	Beit Ummar
	Al-Arrub Refugee Camp	Opposite Al-Arrub College	Bypass road no. 60	The camp's entrance
	Al-Arrub Refugee Camp	In front of the Israeli watchtower	Bypass road no. 60	Neighborhoods of the camp
	Beit Awwa	Al-Buq'a area	Beit Awwa	Dura town
	Al-Majd village	Al-Buq'a area	Beit Awwa	AL-Majd area
	Fuqaiqis	Near Nighot colony	Dura village	Villages of west Dura
	Ad-Dhahiriya town	Hebron Valley	Ad-Dhahiriya town	Ad-Dhahiriya crossing
	Surif town	Jab'a town	Surif town	Jab'a town
	Idhna town	Al-Layyeh area	Road no. 35	Idhna town
	Hebron western entrance	Farsh Al-Hawa	Road no. 35	Hebron city
	Hebron northern entrance	Juret Bahlas	Road no. 35	Hebron city
	Beit Awwa entrance	Buq'a area	Dura town	Buq'a juntction
	Hebron southern entrance	Al-Fahs area	Road no. 60
	Yatta town	Al-Fahs area	Road no. 60	Yatta town
	Idhna town		Road no. 35	Idhna and Tarqumiya
	Wadi Shajeneh village	The village's entrance	The village	Road no. 60
	Bani Na'im town	Yaqin hamley	Yaqin hamlet	Road no. 317
	Bani Na'im		Road no. 60	Jalajel area
	Dura town	Abda village	Abda village	Road no. 60

Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2017

Land Research Center sees the closure as a restriction to the right to movement and that it contradicts all international conventions of related  such like :

The Universal Declaration of Human rights1948:

• Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

• Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

• Article 13:
• (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
• (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:

• Article 7 prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
•  Article 9 recognizes the rights to liberty and security of the person. It prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention, requires any deprivation of liberty to be according to law, and obliges parties to allow those deprived of their liberty to challenge their imprisonment through the courts

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC