July 8, Wednesday

On Wednesday night, two shots were fired [allegedly by Palestinians] into an
Israeli car. When Palestinian journalists went to report the event, settlers
mobbed their car and broke off their mirrors. The next day the Israeli
Defense Force set up roadblocks and prevented cars from entering or leaving
this area of Hebron. They also put part of the center of Hebron under closure.
(There were clashes in the center market in protest.) Settler girls held a
protest of their own in front of a Palestinian-owned kebab shop.

July 9, Thursday
Bill Pluecker and Jim Satterwhite went up to Beth El in the morning to help
set up a protest tent for the Coalition against House Demolitions. The tent
was set up just opposite the "Civil
Administration" --the main Israeli military office for administering the
occupied territories of the West Bank. (See releases "Reflections on Amos" and
"Hebron: Travelling Tent Works Against Home Demolitions.")

Israeli and Palestinian press covered the large turnout of Palestinians and
Israelis concerned with this issue. During
the event, word came that several home demolitions were underway in a nearby
Palestinian village, so a bus full of Israeli peace activists coming to the
tent rally was diverted to the village of Anata (near Jerusalem), where some
of them attempted to stop the demolition of the home.

(People wishing a complete account of the incident in Anata may request an
article by Gila Svirsky of Bat Shalom at batshalo [at] netvision [dot] net [dot] il)

July 10, Friday
Visits were made to families who have joined Campaign for Secure Dwellings.
Many of the families inquired about their matching families and churches in
North America

July 11, Saturday
Pierre Shantz and Dianne Roe went to a celebration at the home of Ibrahim
Alamiya in Beit Ummar. Ibrahim, who has a demolition order on his house, was
in a work-related accident one year ago. After eleven months in a coma, he
regained consciousness and was then able to return home. The family's
celebration included his Jewish employers who had contributed funds for his
rehabilitation. Along with their home being threatened, the family is facing
the possible confiscation of their land by the Israeli military authorities.

July 13, Monday
Team members discovered that the Civil Administration had employed someone to
paint over graffiti painted on Palestinian shop doors (such as "Kill the
Arabs") so as to forestall an action to paint over graffiti planned for Friday
July 17 with Israeli peace groups.

As CPTers were returning home they were stopped near the market by the Israeli
military; the bomb squad was preparing to detonate an explosive charge in a
car left near the entrance to the Israeli settlement Avraham Avinu (The
Israeli military sometimes blows up unattended cars, giving as a reason that
the car in question could contain a bomb).

At the last minute the detonation was averted when it was
discovered that the owner of the car was the Palestinian painter employed by
the Civil Administration to paint over the graffiti.

The traveling tent sponsored by the Coalition against House Demolitions came
to Hebron, and was set up next to the highway near the home of the Al Atrash
family. The family has just begun laying the foundation to rebuild their house
-- building for the fourth time, after the home was demolished by the Israeli
military three times.

July 14, Tuesday
Team members joined the traveling tent exhibition where farmers, shepherds,
workers, students, men and women gathered in vigorous dialogue about housing
and economic hardship. The Palestinian Land Defense Committee worked
tirelessly to prepare for this event.

Israeli military jeeps cruised the area, and approached the tent to ask
organizers if they had a permit. They told those assembled that the
gathering was illegal.

July 17, Friday
The Israeli Human Rights Defenders' Team arrived from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
late in the afternoon to help paint over some of the hate-grafitti that the
settlers had painted on Palestinian shops in the market. Despite the fact that
the Israeli military's Civil Administration had tried to prevent the action by
hiring someone to paint over and sandblast the grafitti, there was still quite
a bit left for the group to paint over. The group was composed of Israelis,
CPT'ers, and Palestinians (friends and local shopkeepers).

Pierre Shantz and Jim Satterwhite were taking the Israeli human-rights group
on a tour of the old town, showing them the Abraham mosque and synagogue,
then walking behind the Avraham Avinu settlement into the market. About
halfway through the market a patrol of Israeli soldiers came from the other
direction, and told the Israelis that the market was a closed military zone
for them. The group then agreed to leave.

Following this incident the six Israelis walked up by the Beit
Haddassah settlement, where they were stopped by Israeli police and taken in
for several hours of interrogation to the Kiryat Arba police station.

Later in the day a group of s