**Note: The following is a communiation from CPTers in Hebron who had
just returned from a visit with the Jabber family who's home was
demolished by Israeli authorities on Wednesday, Aug. 19
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CPT workers returned to the Jabbers Thursday afternoon. We had with
us printouts of letters and messages from around the world, that had
been sent to the Jabber family expressing condolences and outrage
at the demolition of the Jaber house. A tent had been erected near the
rubble. The roof slab overhangs the remaining broken structure. Rodina,
the mother has made a makeshift kitchen in that space with a double
gas burner for making more rounds of tea. Men had begun to gather
to build a new tent on the other side of the existing tent .

Rodina's nieces read the messages to the women who had gathered under
the tent, as children played in the rubble. Rodina and most of the
women were still teary-eyed, but interruped the tears with comments
on the messages from visitors who had been at their house.
We heard Rodina explain to the other women about the
people who had written the messages. She described what they had
meant to the family. Rodina seemed to regain calmness as she hand
stitched row upon row on her quilt.

The faces were full of emotion but the emotions were too raw to
take photos. In the course of our time there calls came to the
cell phone including one from Sara, a CPTer in Iowa, one from
Pierre a CPTer now on leave in Ontario, and still another from
Arik, a Rabbi living in Jerusalem. Finally there was one from
Hisham a Palestinian journalist who did a live interview with
Ata where Ata talked of peace for all people. Some of the rage
from yesterday has been replaced by the energy he is
putting into rebuilding. The phone calls mean a lot.

In the late afternoon when a truckload of gravel arrived for
mixing concrete, the children cheered. About 40 neighbors arrived in
the course of the evening and continued to work late into the night,
finishing the foundation.

Two of us Natasha Krahn, (Waterloo Ont.) and Dianne Roe (Corning NY)
stayed overnight with Ata's parents. It was morning when we discovered
that a curfew had been placed on Hebron because of the murder of a
settler near the CPT house. We went over to Ata's demolished home and
found a half dozen neighbors who were beginning to build the framework
for the concrete sides.

We were able to return to Hebron in spite of the curfew, but we
expect we will have difficulty getting back out. The family will be
susceptible again after shabbot (Sabbath) is over. Continue the prayers.
All of us need them.