June 11, Thursday
At 10:30 a.m., CPT received a call concerning trouble at the home of
Yussef and Zuhour Al-Attrash who live on the outskirts of Hebron. CPT
had provided a presence during the rebuilding of the family's home
which was demolished by Israeli soldiers in March. The new house was
almost complete. Jamey Bouwmeester, Anne Montgomery and Sydney Stigge
responded to the call to find that the new house had been demolished
at 9 a.m. that morning. (See separate release.)

Upon arrival the CPTers met 8 military jeeps and a bulldozer leaving
the scene, followed by several disheartened journalists. Zuhour was
crying out in grief. Yussef and the eldest daughter, Manaal, 17, had
been arrested for resisting the demolition. They were released
around noon. The rest of the CPT team arrived at the scene and kept
a presence all afternoon. Pierre Shantz came with 14 participants
in Mennonite Central Committee's Jerusalem Seminar, a visit that was
arranged before the demolition and that the family insisted was now
more important than ever.

June 12, Friday
Bouwmeester, Shantz, Eric Graham, and Sara Reschly went to assist with
preparation for rebuilding efforts at the Al-Attrash home. Members of
the Israeli peace groups Gush Shalom, Peace Now and Rabbis for Human
Rights were also present.

Montgomery, Stigge, Claire Miller and Mark Frey and his family visited
the Jabber farm in the Beqa'a valley, which had received notice from
Israeli authorities that demolition orders would soon be implemented.
However, there was no untoward action this day.

June 13, Saturday
Montgomery introduced World Vision to the situation here.

June 14, Sunday
The team began a round-the-clock presence in the Beqa'a Valley in
view of the threats of imminent demolitions.

June 15, Monday

Abdel Hadi Hantash of the Palestinian Land Defense Committee reported
that on Sunday, June 14, settlers from Ma'on and Israeli soldiers
prevented Ibrahim Abu Jindeeya, a Palestinian farmer and shepherd in
the Yatta area south of Hebron, from bringing in his wheat. The CPT
team, CPT-RAB delegation members and other friends had assisted
Jindeeya with an earlier step of the harvest as a solidarity action
June 6.

June 16, Tuesday

June 17, Wednesday
Frey and Reschly observed three Palestinian men putting a new lock on
the door of a Palestinian house that is directly next to the Jewish
settlement of Beit Hadassah in the Hebron old city. According to TIPH
(Temporary International Presence in Hebron) reports, settlers have
been illegally using the empty house.

A 48-year-old Palestinian man, Abdel Majid Abu Turki, was killed
yesterday in Hebron. According to news reports, two youths
from the Beit Haggai settlement admitted to striking him in the head
with a plank of wood from a passing van. He was buried tonight in the
cemetery on Shuhada Street, near the CPT apartment. Dozens of Israeli
soldiers lined the street, as well as about a dozen TIPH personnel,
and several journalists, preparing for clashes. Bouwmeester, Hart,
Miller, Reschly, and Shantz were also present. A few Palestinians
threw rocks and burned Israeli flags near the graveyard as the funeral
ended, but by 9:30 p.m. they had dispersed and the CPTers returned
home.