Palestinians excluded from Israel Police map of southern West Bank - Israel

posted on: Sep 28, 2015

The map of the Hebron region used by the Israel Police excludes all the Palestinian villages and communities in the area, other than the three big cities, and omits written data about the Palestinian population.
In the map’s segmentation of the terrain between “built-up” and “open” areas, the populated Palestinian areas are included under “open.”
The map was published in 2014 by the police’s planning division and bears the signature of division head Maj. Gen. Danny Chen. The Hebron sector in the Judea and Samaria police district covers the southern West Bank (up to and including Bethlehem) but not the Judean Desert.
The map, a photograph of which was obtained by Haaretz, is framed and hangs on the wall in the patrol room of the Kiryat Arba-Hebron police station. It consists of a large information board, in the center of which is the map.
Only the cities of Bethlehem, Halhul and Hebron appear on the map, alongside Israeli settlements (but excluding unauthorized outposts.)
The other Palestinian cities, towns, villages, shepherding communities – together numbering more than 200 localities – don’t appear. Areas A, B and C as defined by the Oslo Accords are color coded. The police don’t operate in Area A, but are authorized to operate in areas B and C, in other words to enter the dozens of villages and communities in those areas. They are also authorized to detain, arrest and issue traffic tickets to any Palestinian travelling the roads in Area C.
The information section of the map puts the “number of residents” at 82,000. An asterisk points to a note that reads “Irrespective of the Palestinian population.” The religious segmentation of the area is given as 99.6 percent Jews and 0.4 percent others.

Source: www.haaretz.com