Saturday, Sept 5
Joanne "Jake" Kaufman participated in a nonviolence workshop
at Hebron's Al Watan Center for the Study of Nonviolence.
Palestinians, Israelis and internationals talked about the ways
nonviolence can be used and is being used in the Hebron area.
Rebuilding was identified as a nonviolent method of resisting the
Israeli policy of home demolitions.

Thursday, September 10
Olive trees belonging to Abdel Jawad Jabber were destroyed by Israeli
soldiers. (See September 11 Hebron Urgent Action: Stop the destruction in the
Beqa'a and CPTnet release Israeli Military Demolishes Jabber Family Orchard.)
Jamey Bouwmeester and Montgomery spent the morning with the family.

Friday, Sept 11
Anne Montgomery and Kaufman visited a family near Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
The road near their house is being widened, they believe in preparation for
becoming a Israeli bypass road. This threatens hundreds of Palestinian
families whose homes are built within 150 meters off this road, first built
several years
ago.

Saturday, Sept 12
Bouwmeester, Kaufman and a translator visited families involved in the
Campaign for Secure Dwellings south of Hebron. They showed the family photos
of a CPT-sponsored public witness about house demolitions in front of the
Israeli consulate in Chicago. The father nodded approvingly as he said,
"_This_ is what we need. We need people to know what is happening here."

Tuesday, September 15
Montgomery and Pierre Shantz visited families in the Baqa'a Valley. Israeli
authorities have put a fence up right next to the house of one family,
cutting off access to their land.

Wednesday, September 16
Israeli bulldozers demolished the new two-room house of Atta Jabber four
weeks to the day after his first home was reduced to rubble. (See release,
"Jabber Family Home Destroyed Twice in One Month.")

In the course of the demolition, Atta was arrested. The team went to the
police station to advocate for his release. Land Defense Committee lawyer
Moussa Mahamry was able to see him.

Manal Al-Atrash , 17, was attacked and beaten near her home south of
Hebron by three Israeli paratroopers. According to Israeli news sources, the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that soldiers on patrol had stopped and
used force on the young woman. Two relatives
arrived on the scene and asked why the soldiers were beating her. The
soldiers accused her of having thrown stones. Manal was released and the
soldiers left the scene. Manal was hospitalized for two days.

Thursday, September 17
The team visited Manal Al-Atrash in the
hospital. In the afternoon they visited Rodeina Jabber, now living at
the home of relatives.

Friday, September 18
Bouwmeester, Kaufman and Montgomery met with Israeli Committee Against Home
Demolitions (ICAHD) representatives and Land Defense Committee lawyer Mahamry
and Issa Ham and cartographer Hantash at the ruined Jabber home. Mahamry and
Hantash informed CPT that Atta was still in prison, and had been beaten. His
trial was set for Wednesday, September 23, and the prosecutor will ask for
10,000 shekels and a six-month prison term.

Kaufman and Shantz visited the Al-Atrash family along with a group of
internationals from Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Manel was home from the hospital
but said she was very tired.

Saturday, September 19
Bouwmeester, Kaufman and Shantz visited "Ismail," and his family for lunch.
Ismail showed the trio a water cistern with a demolition order. The cistern
is intended to catch rain in the winter to irrigate his tomato terraces in
summer.
Israeli authorities have recently confiscated irrigation hoses from farming
families in the Beqa'a Valley, claiming that they are "stealing" water from
pipes intended for Israeli settlements or the Hebron Municipality. Ismail
said, "I am taking water from God, from the land."

An Israeli reporter told Ismail he was "stealing" water, even though the
cistern means that now he won't have to depend on Israeli or municipal
Palestinian water sources for irrigating. He said, "I don't want my children
growing up to hit Jews. I just want them to grow up to live in peace."