July 30, Thursday
CPTers were walking through the market when a Palestinian woman said that
there was trouble near the entrance to Avraham Avinu and that "settlers were
trying to kidnap a Palestinian child."

The CPTers went to investigate, and saw an angry crowd of Palestinians and a
small group of Israeli settlers by the roundabout near Avraham Avinu,
separated by soldiers. Several
people in the crowd repeated the kidnapping story. CPTers also spoke to a
soldier, who stated that the incident began when a settler young woman accused
a Palestinin boy of throwing stones at her, then grabbed his arm and said
that she was going to take him to the police. At this point the onlookers had
reacted.

Three houses near Tarqoumia (north of Hebron) were demolished. According to
the Hebron Land Defense Committee, one house may have been demolished by
mistake. Soldiers asked the owner of this house his name, and a
representative of the Land Defense Committee advised him not to give it in
order to to prevent the soldiers filling out a demolition order and dating it
retroactively.

Two CPTers went to Anata, near Jerusalem, to help Palestinians, Israelis and
internationals rebuild a demolished home there.

July 31, Friday
Fayez Jabber reported that all of his irrigation pipes have been taken by the
Israeli authorities, who accuse families in the area of stealing water (see
release, "Reflections on Water.") Each row cost about 175 shekels (about US$
50). Twenty families were affected. Members of these families counted 20
jeeps and about 100 soldiers at the site in the Baqa'a Valley.

August 3, Monday
The house in Anata where the rebuilding was in progress was
demolished at 5:30 AM. Two CPTers and Jeff Halper from the Israeli Committee
against House Demolitions tried unsuccessfully to get in the way (see release
from Aug 3, "WEST BANK: Anata Home Demolished.")

August 4, Tuesday
The team received a phone call that soldiers were in the Baqa'a valley (east
of Hebron) and went to investigate, thinking a home demolition might be in
progress. They found that a group of African workers, guarded by Israeli
soldiers, were ripping up irrigation lines from tomato and squash fields. The
CPTers engaged the workers, soldiers, and Palestinian families in
conversation, then proceeded to
pick some of the riper tomatoes to keep them from being lost.

After this some Palestinian women began moving irrigation pipes to the next
field to save them from confiscation. CPTer Jim Satterwhite picked up a coil
of piping and was about to move it as well when he was detained by an Israeli
army officer and then formally arrested and taken to the police station at
Kiryat Arba. After being questioned he was released
after 4 hours on his personal recognizance. (see release)

August 7, Friday
Two CPTers were setting out on Night Patrol around 9 PM when they saw 5
Palestinian youth standing almost spread-eagled against the wall opposite the
apartment, detained by the Israeli military. After a moment the soldiers were
joined by two settler young men, then a young settler couple came up and the
young man began shaking his fist at the Palestinian young men. At this point
soldiers intervened to keep them
apart.

The Palestinian young men were escorted by the soldiers down
Shuhada street, where several other Palestinian young men had been detained.
Several of the Palestinians were taken to the police station. Throughout the
incident many settlers walked through the array of 4 jeeps, 10-15 soldiers, 2
TIPH patrols, 2 CPTers, and a handful of Palestinians as they returned from
Friday evening services at the synagogue. One Israeli soldier was overheard
saying that a Palestinian had spit on a settler.