Easter Sunday, April 12
The grounds of the Ibrahimi mosque and the park across the street were
the site of a festival to celebrate thirty years of the Jewish
presence in Hebron and to kick off Israel's 50th anniversary. A
friend told team members the Israeli government gave the settlers
600,000 shekels for the festival. The settler newsletter claimed
80,000 visitors attended the event; The Temporary International
Presence in Hebron (TIPH), an official observer group estimated a few thousand.

The team went to the al-Atrash's to celebrate Easter with friends
from Bethlehem and Beit Hanina (see news release).

Monday, April 13
Jamey Bouwmeester called from the al-Atrash tent to say that Manaal
was again taken to the Alia hospital because her hand had clenched up.
Later that morning a Palestinian official told the neighbor down the
hill from the al-Atrash family that he would be liable for paying the
electricity the family had recently hooked into. The official also
reported that he had heard that the al-Atrash house-in-progress would
be bulldozed. Upon hearing this, the neighbor was seized with such a
severe headache that he too was taken to Alia hospital.

Tuesday, April 14
Kathy Kern met a Palestinian American in a pharmacy who is unable to
enter Jerusalem, even with his American passport.

At the request of a friend, the whole team along with members of the
Deaf Club went to the al-Atrash's because Abbas Zaki, a member of
the Palestinian authority, and some other Palestinian dignitaries
came to look into the al-Atrash's situation.

Wednesday, April 15
Rich Meyer returned to the United States. Abdel Hadi Hantash stopped
by to report that 6 new settlements are planned along the southern
border of Hebron district just beyond the green line. He thinks this
may be related to the eviction notices 100 families in Yatta received
last week on the first day of Eid al-Adhaa. Anne Montgomery and Jane
Adas visited Manaal in Alia Hospital, and then the office of Defence
for Children International. The team learned that Member of the
Knesset Dedi Zucker is interested in seeing the al-Atrash family's
documents.

Thursday, April 16
Erick Graham joined the team.

A friend from 'Idna (northwest of Hebron) came by to see about
connecting people in the 'Idna area facing home demolition with CPT's
Campaign for Secure Dwellings.

Kathy Kern and Jane Adas visited the Jamal family. When Wendy Lehman
and Kern did the background research for the Hebron project in winter
1995, one of their first contacts in Hebron was with the Jamal family.
At that time, settlers had recently bulldozed their land and uprooted
olive trees. The family was told they would have to pay a 300 shekel
fine for every tree they re-planted. Since that time, the settlement
of Kiryat Arba has confiscated increasing amounts of the Jamal family
land. Two weeks ago, the settlement, which lies to the east of the
Jamal family, confiscated the remainder of the family's land, which
lies to the west of their house, leaving only the land on which the
house stands (and enclosing it in barbed wire.) If Kiryat Arba builds
on that land, the Jamal's neighborhood will be surrounded on three
sides by the settlement.

Friday, April 17
Atta Jabber stopped in to say that his wife had delivered a healthy
baby boy. Montgomery gave a tour of Hebron to American families of
friends. Kern learned that one of them had received identical
responses from Clinton and Israeli Consulate regarding their letters
about the al-Atrash family.

Saturday, April 18
Dianne Roe with other team members visited Nidal Tamimi at the Hebron
Municipality to give him an update on the Campaign for Secure
Dwellings and to pass on the proposal for a Jewish Peacekeeping Team
in Hebron. Kern and Bouwmeester went to the al-Atrash's after
learning that Israeli soldiers had been seen walking around the area
of the tent and the unfinished rebuilt house. The rest of the team
went with Abdul Hadi Hantash to the Yatta area to talk with families
who have received eviction notices and been harassed by the settler,
Dov(see news release).

Sunday, April 19
While Montgomery, Bouwmeester and Adas were with the al-Atrash's,
four men from an Islamic Aid Society arrived with many supplies for
the family. They promised that once the family had obtained a
permit, they would provide the necessary building materials. Yussef
told them that he felt greatful to the Israeli army and occupation
authorities, because before his house was demolished he had only
three brothers and now he has hundreds.

Dov the settler, mentioned above, was killed in a confrontation with
Palestinian shepherds. According to news reports, a shepherd snatched
his gun from him and shot him with it. But Abdel Hadi Hantash, after
speaking with the families involved, reported that a second settler
shot Dov by mistake. Four