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Hamid's got the vibe of a guy who can handle anything.
A beefy Tony Soprano type, but without the menace.
We're in this big, white, four-wheel drive pickup truck that he tools around in.
Me and him and a producer, Sassan Khalifi.
And Hamid's task this morning requires ingenuity.
His task?
He's got to get to work.
Step one, get himself out of Hebron, the city where he lives.
This is in the West Bank, so movement on the roads is controlled by the Israeli army.
And every day the army changes which exits out of the city are open.
So I checked on many groups, which entrance is easy to go out.
These are WhatsApp and Telegram groups.
Today they say that only two roads are open in and out of the city of a quarter million people.
We drive to one of them, where a handful of soldiers with assault rifles are manning a checkpoint.
They open this door around 6 in the morning.
And we're third in line.
There's a gate, and soldiers are going through the cars.
Yes.