Friday, January 16
CPTers, along with eight members of the Hebron Prisoners' Club, visited
families near Yatta village whose cave homes and stone fences were demolished
two months ago by the Israeli military. As the group walked to the remote
area, an Israeli Land Rover passed the group. The families told the group
this was a nearby settler who has harassed the families in the past, killing
two of their horses. That morning he had tried to shoot one of their dogs.

Saturday, January 17

Anne Montgomery and Sara Reschly took a Jewish- American film crew to meet
with a Palestinian family whose home was demolished eight months ago. On one
section of the road used by both Palestinians and Israeli settlers, the bus
came upon Jewish settlers returning home from morning Shabbat prayers. One
of the Jewish-Americans asked the settlers to move so the bus could pass.
After a heated exchange, the settlers refused to move and walked slowly in
front of the bus, blocking passage.

Pierre Shantz and JoAnne Lingle took a small group of Israelis from Peace Now
to visit two Palestinian families who have received orders to demolish their
homes. The group and the families have been matched as part of the Campaign
for Secure Dwellings. The Palestinian families invited the group to stay for
the evening Ramadan celebration, breaking of the fast after sun-down. One of
the Israeli participants responded, "With all the horrible news I heard
today about your situation, I don"t feel like celebrating. It is evil to
make people live like this."

Sunday, January 18

Late in the night, the CPTers received a phone call from the CPT staff in
the United States, saying that they had received death threats via e-mail
and the Chicago office's answering machine targeting the Hebron Team. (see
releases)

Tuesday, January 20

Bruce Yoder attended the Palestinian Human Rights Monitory Group's (PHRMG)
press conference regarding the results of an investigation into the alleged
Palestinian Authority's (PA) persecution of Palestinian Christians. PHRMG
is the only human rights group in the West Bank that primarily focuses on
the human rights violations of the Palestinian Authority. PHRMG concluded
that "reports of widespread [PA] persecution are utterly without
foundation." The report also questioned the political motivation of the
classified Israeli government report (on Christian persecution) that was
leaked
by the Prime Minister"s Office to the _Jerusalem Report_ magazine and the
International Christian Embassy, a Christian Zionist organization.

CPT hosted the 30-member Bethel College Jerusalem Seminar group led by Patty
Shelly, director of MCC- Jerusalem. In the morning, the CPTers led a group
tour of Hebron and shared experiences about working in Hebron. In the
afternoon, the group met with families who live with the threat of home
demolition or who live near settlements.

At 1:00 p.m., in the middle of hosting the group, CPTers held a press
conference at the Hebron municipality regarding the death threats. In
addition to CPTers, the Hebron mayor, Mustapha Natshe, and Palestinian human
rights lawyer, Jonathan Kuttab, spoke at the press conference.

Thursday, January 22

Abed Al Hadi Hantash, of the Hebron Land Defense Committee, reported to CPT
that twelve Palestinians were arrested demonstrating against an Israeli rock
quarry near the Palestinian village of Dura. Mr. Hantash also reported that
near the Israeli settlement of Haggai, a new by-pass road was opened. Six
hundred dunams were confiscated from one Palestinian landholder for the road.

Anne Montgomery and JoAnne Lingle visited a Bedouin family who lives near the
Israeli settlement of Carmel. The family was told by settlers that their
children would be killed if they allowed their roosters to crow. The two
CPTers also visited several other Bedouin families who live in an area
declared by the Israeli government as a "military area". The families
complained of harassment by the military maneuvers practiced at night near
their homes. They stated that they have lived in this area for the last
fifty years but are not allowed to build. A small mosque in the area has a
demolition order.

Friday, January 23

HEAL (Healing Early Action Link) , a partner of the Wi"am Palestinian
Conflict Resolution Center, made a solidarity visit to CPT. The group
stated, "We, Israelis and Palestinians together, express our condemnation of
the death threats to the non-violent activists of the Christian Peacemaker
Team in Hebron."

Saturday, January 24

In the afternoon, CPTers with two American friends from Jerusalem observed
Israeli soldiers checking Palestinian ID"s at a checkpoint near the Arab
vegetable market. After the check was completed, the two Palestinians began
to leave when one of the soldiers stepped close to one of the Palestinians in
an aggressive stance. CPTers moved closer
and when the soldier began to push the Palestinian up against a wall, CPTers
physically intervened to protect the Pa