Monday, April 5
The team joined Israelis and Palestinians in the rebuilding of two
demolished homes. The houses are being built for the Shawamreh family in
Anatta (in the Jerusalem area) and for the Daoud family near Yatta, south of
Hebron.

Wednesday, April 7
Abdel Hadi Hantash of the Land Defense Committee (LDC) reported that the
Israeli Military announced plans to confiscate two hills in the Beqa'a
valley. The two hills straddle the road that leads from Route 60 to the
entrance of the settlement. Part of one of the hills belongs to Abdel Jawad
and Jowdi Jabber, Atta Jabber's father and brother.

Thursday, April 8
Sara Reschly and Anne Montgomery went to the Beqa'a valley with Hantash and
Moussa Mahamry of the LDC to participate in a protest against the continuing
land confiscation there. But the protest was rescheduled because of
inclement weather.

Yussef Al Atrash, a friend of the team who has had his home demolished
three times, was stopped at the Bethlehem checkpoint as he returned to the
West Bank from Jerusalem. When his ID was checked in the computer, his
record showed his past history of building "illegal structures" and
indicated that he currently had an illegal one on his property, although the
only structure on his property is a tent. He was arrested and brought to
the Kiryat Arba police station where he was held in jail over night and
charged NIS 1000 ($250), which the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions paid.

Friday, April 9
In the morning, 150 Israelis from Peace Now protested the settler presence
in Hebron. They held their demonstration across from the Tomb of the
Patriarchs while settlers held a small counter demonstration across the
street. Police and soldiers, who outnumbered the protesters kept the two
groups apart. Peace Now was required to apply for a permit that restricted
their numbers to 150 exactly.

Saturday, April 10
Reschly and Mark Frey returned to Anatta to continue rebuilding the
Shawamreh house.

Montgomery spent the day rebuilding the Daoud house with another group of
Israeli volunteers. On the way from Jerusalem to the rebuilding, the group
stopped at the sites of the Jabber and Al Atrash demolitions. Members of
the families shared their stories with the Israelis and then all continued
south to rebuild together.

Tuesday, April 13
In the afternoon Bouwmeester visited Jowdi Jabber in the Beqa'a valley.
Jowdi owns land on one of the hills that the military is confiscating,
according to recent announcements (see above, April 7). Bouwmeester
suggested several ideas for actions against the confiscation, but Jowdi was
hesitant to commit, possibly fearing retaliation from the military. While
they talked they could hear heavy machinery bulldozing the hill.

Goode and Reschly went on a walking patrol in the city. A few
soldiers with whom they spoke talked about the "dirty" nature of Hebron and
it's "uneducated" Palestinian population.

Wednesday, April 14
Bouwmeester, Frey, Goode, Montgomery, and Reschly participated in a
demonstration outside Jerusalem's old city against the revocation of
residency rights for Palestinian Jerusalemites who have lived outside of
Jerusalem for more than 7 years. The demonstration was organized by several
Palestinian and Israeli NGOs. Demonstrators held signs
showing a parody of Prime Minister Netanyahu's ID card with a large
"EXPIRED" stamp across it along with the words, "Bibi, you were abroad for
12 years. Now it's your turn."

Thursday, April 15
Abdel Hadi Hantash of the Land Defense Committee reported that on April 13th
he had witnessed 16 houses under construction in Sussia settlement near the
very southern border of the West Bank.

Bouwmeester, Goode, Montgomery, and Reschly went to the Beqa'a valley hoping
to protest the land confiscation by sitting in front of the bulldozer. But
when they arrived the family made it clear that they did not want to provoke
the military any further.

In the afternoon, Bouwmeester gave an interview to two German radio
journalists. Then he and Goode took the journalist to the Beqa'a to show
them the situation there.

In the evening, a three person CPT Rebuilders Against Bulldozers
(RAB)delegation arrived safely from Canada and the U.S. to spend 10 days
with the team.

Saturday, April 17
Bouwmeester, Goode, and Reschly continued rebuilding the Daoud home in the
southern Hebron district with ICAHD and a large group of internationals.
The group succeeded in building a tin roof over the house before they were
told to leave by Israeli soldiers and police officers.

On the way back to Jerusalem, the group stopped at the site of Atta and
Rodeina Jabber's demolished houses to celebrate Rajeh Jabber's first
birthday. Police, who had followed them from the Daoud home 10 km away,
told them that they were not allowed to stop there either. The group mostly
ignored the police and walked up the hill to have cake and soda with the
family. That evening the team and RAB delegation went to the Jabber tent
for a smaller party with the family (see CPTNet release "A Rebuilding, a
Birthday, and the Occupation").

Tuesday, April 20
Abdel Hadi Hantash led the RAB delegation on a tour of the southern Hebron
District. They visited and spoke with several families in that area who are
facing land confiscation and harassment from settlers. Hantash showed the
delegation the new construction that is taking place in Sussia settlement
(see above, April 15). On a nearby hilltop a lone settler has set up a
caravan and named the hill after Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, who
told settlers to "take all the hilltops" in the West Bank.

Wednesday, April 21
Shopkeepers from Shuhadda street came to the CPT apartment to request the
team's presence at a protest march against the closure of the street. The
street has been closed to almost all Palestinian vehicle traffic since the
1994 Mosque Massacre.

Soldiers stopped a Palestinian man on the street because he had no ID.
Goode and Reschly sat with him for almost two hours until his friend was
able to bring his ID from home. The soldiers checked it and released the
man.

That afternoon while Goode was on the roof, he was ordered to get down by a
soldier stationed on the roof across the street. When Goode asked why he
needed to get off of the roof, the soldier stated that he was not going to
argue-he should get down or the soldier would call the police to have
Goode arrested.

Frey, Bouwmeester, and Montgomery took a group from the Compassionate
Listening Project to the CPT roof to show them the view. Leah Greene,
director of the project, organizes delegations of Americans to listen
actively to voices from both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The group was immediately told that they would have to get
down by soldiers across the street. Speaking in Hebrew, the
Jewish-American