Hebron City and Region Maps

The stories of our work here will follow, but I also wish to give a sense of where these stories are is taking place. Maps offer different perspectives on an area. Many Israeli maps don't show the West Bank or Gaza. If they do, they call it "the Territories" or "Judea and Samaria" the biblical names, ignoring the 2.5 million Palestinians who inhabit it. The first map shows more clearly the location of the West Bank in the region. There is also an excerpt of the Hebron region from a British map pre-1948. Interestingly, it is signed by Israeli General Moshe Dayan, and features the green pencil lines that marked out the territory of the West Bank, following the war of 1948 that created Israel. The full version is available on: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Maps/index.html

This map shows in more detail the nature of the occupation at the heart of the old city of Hebron.

This map from http://www.ochaopt.org/ shows the network of control by the occupying Israeli army around the Hebron area.

This last image gives an outline of Hebron city, and the areas controlled by the Israeli military, on behalf of a few thousand settlers. You can see the 3 main areas occupied by settlers:

1. the centre of Old Hebron (400 inhabitants approx.)

2. the Kiryat Arba settlement (7000 inhabitants approx.)

3. the Harsina settlement (500 inhabitants approx.)