and the Palestinian Authority can’t easily arrange for an ambulance to cross the [Israeli] checkpoint to enter the town. In the case of the man who was run over by the tractor, by the time the ambulance arrived, people had managed to lift the man from underneath the tractor, but his condition was really bad. The other case was my own uncle. When the ambulance arrived, my uncle was already dead and there was no more need for it but to carry out his body.” A. Abeid, Nabi Samuel. Interview: 6 February 2017 Old City of Hebron Hebron is a large commercial city in the south of the West Bank, known for being both an important religious site and the only Palestinian city besides Jerusalem to contain Israeli colonies within its urban area. The case of Hebron also provides a unique example of how service provision policies can be engineered to create two diametric environments for two peoples within a single area. This difference within service provision is enabled by the geopolitical division of Hebron into two parts. Hebron 1 (H1) consists of 80 percent of the city and is under the administration of the PA. Hebron 2 (H2) consists of the remaining 20 percent, encompassing the Old City as well as the Israeli colonies established in the city, and is under full Israeli control.252 Service provision for the 6,000 Palestinians living in H2 is delegated to the PA,253 despite the fact that Israel as an occupying power is ultimately responsible for this task. In addition to shirking its duties, Israel also obstructs the PA’s efforts in H2, leading to a de facto denial of services for Palestinians living in the area.254 Services routinely denied to Palestinian neighborhoods within H2 include water, electricity, sanitation, transportation, basic maintenance, and emergency medical and fire services.255 Palestinians in H2 suffer from the same water restrictions and rationing experienced by other Palestinians in the West Bank, while the colonies are connected to a constant supply of water 252 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, PLO-Isr., 17 January 1997, Article 2/a/1, available at: http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/protocol%20 concerning%20the%20redeployment%20in%20hebron.aspx [accessed 22 August 2017]. 253 OCHA oPt, Fragmented Lives: Humanitarian Overview 2015, June 2016, 21, available at: https://www. ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/annual-humanitarian-overview_10_06_2016_english.pdf 254 BADIL, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of the Old City of Hebron, Bethlehem: August 2016, 44, available at: http://badil.org/phocadownloadpap/badil-new/publications/research/working-papers/ CaseStudyFPT-Hebron(August2016).pdf [hereinafter, BADIL, Old City of Hebron]. 255 Id., 41. 71