Thursday, April 22
The entire team and RAB (Rebuilders Against Bulldozers) delegation
accompanied about a dozen merchants as they marched up Shuhada Street and
then to Hebron city hall to protest the continued Israeli-imposed closure
of the street and its affect on their business. The march happened without
incident. Police and soldiers seemed confused as the group walked past
Beit Hadassah settlement. At city hall, the group had a short meeting with
the mayor in which they aired their grievances.

Dianne Roe took the RAB delegates to visit Palestinian families with
demolition orders who are matched with North Americans in CPT's Campaign for
Secure Dwellings (CSD). The taxi driver dropped them off at the bottom of
Shuhada St. A soldier at the checkpoint there detained the driver and took
his ID. About 20 minutes later, a police jeep came by, the taxi driver
talked to them and they released him.

Friday, April 23
Mark Frey attended the wedding of one of the Jabber families' oldest son,
Omar. Omar and his bride will be living in his parents' house because they
are unable to obtain a permit for a house of their own. Omar's parents are
a partner family in the CSD.

The rest of the team and the RAB delegation joined members of the Israeli
Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) in
the East Jerusalem village of Issawiyya where two houses had been demolished
only three days earlier. Several of the Israelis and one of the RAB
delegates stayed in Issawiyya for the day, clearing rubble from the
foundations of the demolished houses. The rest of the group continued on to
Anatta (East Jerusalem) to continue rebuilding the Shawamreh house.

Saturday, April 24
Bouwmeester and an American friend from Haifa left early to return again to
the Shawamreh house in Anatta where they spent the day working.

Sunday, April 25
Abdel Hadi Hantash of the Land Defense Committee (LDC) visited the team and
gave them the following report: On April 22, settlers from Maatzedot Yehuda
settlement destroyed a 300 meter fence around a Palestinian school near
Yatta. On April 23, settlers from Beni Haifer settlement east of Hebron
uprooted about 200 olive trees near the Palestinian village of Beni Naim. On
April 24, The Israeli military gave evacuation orders to several families
living in the southernmost part of the West Bank. The orders give them 30
days to leave their land which the military claims is "Israeli state land."

Monday, April 26
Roe accompanied a British musicographer on a visit to the Al Atrash family
to record them in their tent singing and playing the 'Oud (a traditional
Palestinian instrument). In conversation, Yussef the father said, "Israel
was one of the first countries to send relief supplies to the refugees from
Kosovo. Yet Israel has demolished our houses. We are refugees too; where
is our food? Where is our medicine?"

Thursday, April 29
Mark Frey and Reschly went to the Baa'qa valley where the Israeli military,
in conjunction with the Israeli water company Mikerot, confiscated many
hundreds of meters of plastic irrigation pipe from four different families,
accusing the families of stealing water.

Friday, April 30
The Jabber and Al Atrash families invited the team to a party on the border
of Israel and the West Bank organized by Peace Now. At the party, about 300
Israelis and Palestinians sang, danced and shared a meal to show their
governments how real security is achieved. (See release "May 4th
Reflection")

Saturday, May 1 - International Workers Day
Roe took Jared Penner- who is working at Bethlehem Bible College - to visit
the Palestinian family his family and church in Winnipeg,Mannitoba, are
matched with through the CSD.

A Border Police soldier in Hebron was waving around his M-16 at some
children and accidentally shot and wounded two children from the Muhtaseb
family near the Cave of Machpela. The bullet passed through the leg of the
11 year old boy and hit a wall, causing shrapnel that grazed the head of his
4 year old sister. The boy was treated at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem
where he underwent surgery for 14 hours. The military apologized for the
accident.

Sunday, May 2
Team members attended an award ceremony in Jerusalem for Bishara Awad,
director and founder of the Bethlehem Bible College (BBC).

As team members Roe and Bourke Kennedy returned to Hebron, they noticed a
disturbance near Beit Romano settlement. Palestinians on the scene said
that two young girls, age 12 and 13, had gone to the store to buy bread when
soldiers started calling them prostitutes in both Arabic and Hebrew and one
soldier had dragged one of the girls by the arm.

Monday, May 3
Atta Jaber and his neighbor Ismael stopped by the CPT office to visit and
report that settlement bulldozers continued to work on the hilltop directly
above Atta's father's house in the Baaq'a valley.

Tuesday, May 4
Official end-date of the interim period of the Oslo Accords

After having secured permission from the landowners, the team went to the
Baaq'a valley prepared to "get in the way" of the bulldozers and risk
arrest, but decided against it once arriving on the scene because the
bulldozers were not working in that area.

Families in the area have mixed feelings about CPTers interfering with the
work. While they want someone to confront what is happening, they fear that
interference might result in harsher treatment of them by the Israeli
authorities.

To protest Arafat's postponement of the Declaration of a Palestinian State,
people marched from Hebron University to the Palestinian/Israeli (H1-H2)
border where smallish clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli
soldiers. A handful of Palestinians were injured.

Returning from a meeting in Jerusalem, Roe happened to be sitting next to
the grandmother of the two Mutahseb children who were accidentally shot by a
Border Police soldier Saturday night. The grandmother had been visiting the
children in the hospital and reported they were fine.

Thursday, May 6
Atta Jaber came to the CPT office to report that bulldozers were again
working on his father's hilltop. Roe accompanied him to the area. Settlers
had also appeared on the scene. Israeli officer Captain Shay, who oversees
a lot of this kind of land confiscation in this area, agreed that the
bulldozers would stop until Sunday when he and Atta would meet at the local
Civil Administration office to look at the settlement expansion maps.

Sunday, May 9
Andrew Courtney, a photographer friend of the team and former CPT RAB
delegation member, and Gail Walker, daughter of Rev. Lucius Walker of
Pastors for Peace, spent the day and night with the team. The two were in
the region developing connections with both Jews and Palestinians o