On the afternoon of Monday, 13 July the traveling tent exhibition dramatizing
the issue of home demolitions came to Hebron. It started on Thursday
afternoon in Beth El, near Ramallah, and then went on to Bethlehem. In
Hebron it was set up on the highway near the home of the Al-Atrash family
whose home has already been demolished three times by the Israeli military.
As the crowds gathered miltary jeeps approached the tent to ask organizers if
they had a permit to hold a demonstration, an implicit threat to dismantal
the tent.

In the days that it was set up here farmers, sheep herders, students and
groups of men and women gathered in vigorous dialogue about housing and
economic hardship. The Palestinian Minister of Agriculture, a veteran of
nonviolence campaigns challenged people gathered at the tent to organize to
resist demolitions and to cooperate on economic problems. The Palestinian
Land Defense Committee with whom CPT works in the Hebron worked tirelessly to
prepare for the tent's arrival and to meet guests.

Wednesday through Saturday Jim Satterwhite of CPT will travel with the
exhibiton to the towns of Aroush Betinjan and Salfit. The campaign will wind
up in Jerusalem Monday, 20 July where it will dramatize for various
international offices and consulates the disruptive affect that demolitions
have on Palestinian families.