Friday, November 6
A car bomb exploded in the crowded Jerusalem Mahane Yehuda market, killing the
two Palestinian assailants and injuring 16 other people. The Islamic Jihaad
political group claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Saturday, November 7
Abdel Hadi Hantash of Land Defense Committee reported that the Israeli
military is constructing a new by-pass road six kilometers long in the
Southern part of the Hebron district. The road is to connect the Jewish
settlement of Tina with the Israeli military camp Ash Kaliot.

Hantash stated that the road is illegal because the Israeli military is taking
the land for the road by force and never announced the expropriation in the
newspaper (which would have given the land owners a chance to object.)

Friday, November 13
Around 12:30 p.m. CPTer Mark Frey saw several soldiers in full combat gear
running down towards the Arab market at the end of Shuhadda street, near Aaron
Gross Square/ Avraham Avinu Settlement. CPTer Pierre Shantz and Frey quickly
followed them down to the market area. A Palestinian journalist told them
that an un-detonated grenade had been thrown at the nearby Israeli
checkpoint.

As the mosques let out from Friday prayer, the market became crowded.
Soldiers cleared the market and pushed back the civilians from the dangerous
area. A bomb expert from the military blew up the grenade.

Soldiers ordered that the Palestinian vegetable vendors close their shops and
made Palestinians go to their homes. Soldiers then began pounding on the
doors of Palestinian homes in the old city, entering the homes, and sometimes
arresting young males.

At about 2:15 p.m., a Palestinian mother told CPTers that soldiers entered her
house, beat her 25 yr. old son, and then arrested him. Her daughter explained
to CPTers that "soldiers threw him against the wall, his head bashed into the
concrete. . . there was blood on his face . . . Abraham [who is reportedly
buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron] is crying."

CPTers accompanied the mother to the Israeli police station to help her
inquire after her son. The Israeli police stated that they were not holding
any Palestinians. As CPTers walked with the woman back to her house, she was
notified by a relative that her son had been released and was at home.

At 4:00 p.m. Israeli jeeps drove through the streets of the old city,
announcing through a loud speaker: "MAMNOUA ITTJOWAL!!!" (Curfew!! It is
forbidden for you [Arabs] to leave your houses!!).

At 6:00 p.m., Jewish settlers danced and sang through the streets celebrating
Shabbat. The Torah reading for this Shabbat was the story of Abraham
purchasing the Tomb of Patriarchs/ Cave of Machpelah in Hebron, thus many
Jewish visitors came to Hebron to observeShabbat.

Saturday, November 14
The large majority of Palestinians living in Hebron's old city were under
curfew. However, soldiers did allow a very small number of Palestinians to
pass on the street. Meanwhile, several hundred Jewish settlers walked freely
to and from the Tomb of Patriarchs. (See Nov. 15 release: "Only Five
Minutes").

Amidst many Jews gathered on the street, CPTers gave a walking tour of Hebron
to an interdenominational group. When the CPTers and the group stopped near
Avraham Avinu, a young Hebron settler woman explained to the group the
religious significance of living in Hebron, while an older male Hebron settler
began calling the CPTers "Nazi." The young woman asked him to be quiet.

Sunday, November 15
Around 9:00 a.m. a dozen settlers entered the Arab vegetable market near Aaron
Gross Square (Shuhada circle) and protested the un-detonated grenade that was
thrown from this market. They called for the market to be closed and moved to
H-1, the 80% of Hebron that is under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

The soldiers and police repeatedly asked the protesters to move out of the
Arab market and onto the street, but did little else to remove the settlers.
Meanwhile, Palestinians walked around the protesters and went on with their
shopping.

At 1:45 p.m., CPTers arrived at the scene of Israeli soldiers
detaining two Palestinians. One of the detained men, Tariq,
explained to the CPTers that he had been detained for more than thirty
minutes. One of the soldiers, without speaking, stepped very close to
Tariq's face.

CPTer Sara Reschly asked the soldier if there was a problem. The soldier did
not reply. He then smashed his nose into
Tariq's nose. Tariq did not react. Reschly told the soldier to stop because
he was hurting Tariq, but the soldier did not
respond. The soldier then spoke angrily to Tariq in Hebrew and
slapped his face. Tariq did not react. The soldier then pulled back his fist
and made a gesture as if he were going to punch Tariq. Reschly physically
intervened by holding on to the soldiers arm. She explained to the soldier
that the two Palestinians were doing nothing wrong.

The soldier completely ignored Reschly. He spoke some more to Tariq, but
finally backed away