Friday, January 3
Curfew

CPTers Art Gish and Dave Janzen walked to the Beqa'a Valley and visited five
families who talked about the recent confiscation of 1,500 dunams of land by
settlers.

On the way back to the city of Hebron, Gish and Janzen saw soldiers and a
tank parked on the road in front of a Palestinian home that soldiers were
searching. The CPTers stayed with the family until the soldiers left.

Saturday, January 4
Curfew

Janzen and Lorne Friesen escorted two Palestinian women across Shuhada
Street because they were afraid of settlers there. Near the settlement of
Avraham Avinu, settler children grabbed Janzen's CPT hat as settler adults
watched and laughed. When the CPTers walked past the Beit Romano
settlement, a settler teenager shouted at them and struck at Friesen, but
missed. The teen struck Janzen twice on the shoulder and kicked him in the
back. Soldiers at the checkpoint asked the CPTers if they were okay.

Mary Yoder, Friesen, and John Lynes escorted a Palestinian woman to Al Alia
Hospital.

At 8:00 PM, two soldiers entered the CPT apartment building, going up the
stairs to the roof. Lingle, Sue Rhodes, Lynes, and Janzen told the
soldiers they must leave. Lynes said that it was against CPT's principles to
have arms in the building. If they left their weapons outside, Lynes told
them, they were most welcome to visit. One of the soldiers said, "Because
we are soldiers, we must carry guns." The soldiers pointed their guns in the
direction of the Palestinian neighborhood Harit iSheik where a helicopter
hovered. After ten minutes the soldiers left.

Sunday, January 5
Curfew lift 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Lingle and Janzen responded to a call from a Reuters photojournalist, Nayef
Hashlamon, who was at the Israeli police station near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Hashlamon had photographed a detained Palestinian man whom a soldier had hit
in the face. When soldiers attempted to stop the photographer, the police
intervened and told the soldiers to let him do his job.

While at the mosque, Lingle and Janzen interviewed another Palestinian man
who said that two days earlier a soldier put a knife in his pocket and hit
him in the back. Then, they accused him of carrying a concealed weapon.
After two hours, the man was released.

Monday, January 6
Curfew

Throughout the day, Israeli soldiers detained men (some with children), at
the Duboyya Street checkpoint. Between twenty to forty men were detained at
a time from one to ten hours. Soldiers went into H1, formerly the
Palestinian-controlled area of Hebron, took men from their shops and off the
street, and brought them to the Duboyya checkpoint. CPTers stood with the
detainees from mid afternoon until 8:00 PM, when soldiers released the last
man. CPTers provided food and water to the detainees and coats to two men
who were cold. The Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) also
maintained a presence throughout the day.

Greg Rollins and Rebecca Johnson met the South African consulate in the
Beqa'a valley. Israeli police stopped Rollins on the settler Bypass Road
#60 and said he had taken a photo of a settler. Rollins denied he had taken
any photos. The police threatened him with arrest if they saw him on Road 60
again.

Lingle and Rhodes accompanied Abdel Hadi Hantash and Musa Muhamry of the
Hebron District Land Defense Committee and the Hebron District Governor to
the Beqa'a valley to show the South African consulate the new roads built by
settlers on Palestinian land.

Tuesday, January 7
Curfew

At 2:00 PM Lingle, Lynes, and Friesen responded to a call from a Reuters
journalist that soldiers beat a boy at the Beit Hadasseh checkpoint. When
they arrived, they saw a fifteen-year-old boy in handcuffs, sitting stooped
by the soldiers' post. His hands were discolored. CPTers asked the
soldiers to loosen the cuffs but they refused. TIPH and human rights
reporter from B'Tselem (An Israeli human rights organization) joined CPT.
They pulled the boys shirt up and saw red marks on his back where he had
been beaten. The boy's relatives stated that he had protected his
sister-in-law from sexual harassment when four soldiers entered their house.

At 5:00 PM, CPTers again requested the handcuffs to be loosened. A soldier
said they would not loosen the handcuffs because CPTers, TIPH, and
journalists had taken pictures. Two Red Cross workers arrived but were not
permitted to examine the boy. CPT and the others remained with the boy and
his relatives until soldiers escorted the boy to a military vehicle at 6:30
PM.

Wednesday, January 8
Curfew

At 7:30AM, JoAnne Lingle and Lorne Friesen went to the home of the teenager
arrested the day before. The family said they were told the boy was at the
Kiryat Arba police station and could be released on condition they did not
file a complaint against the soldiers for their alleged sexual harassment of
the boy's sister and sister-in-law. The CPTers accompanied the boy's father
and another family member to the police station. At the station an
investigator told them the boy was not there. He was at the Gush Etzion
military camp and could not be released.

Lingle called the Red Cross and asked them to visit the boy. A
representative of the Red Cross said they could not visit detainees in the
first fourteen days of detention.

Art Gish, Mary Yoder and Kathie Uhler, met with Abdel Hadi Hantash, of the
Hebron District Land Defense Committee, and a representative from the Hebron
District Governor's office. They gave a tour of the Beqa'a valley land
confiscation to German and Egyptian consulate representatives. During the
tour, Yoder took pictures of a settler driving a bulldozer to clear land.
The bulldozer charged Yoder. She jumped out of the way but the driver
climbed out, pushed her down and grabbed her camera. He then climbed back on
the bulldozer and headed toward the highway Route 60. Another bulldozer came
and constructed a large earth mound to block any Palestinian traffic from
using the entrance onto Route 60. When the tour group arrived at the earth
mound, several army jeeps stopped. A soldier in one jeep aimed his gun at a
German diplomat's head. The diplomat asked the soldier not to point his gun
at him.

Soldiers took Yoder to the Kiryat Arba police station where she waited for
several hours to file a complaint. A police officer returned the camera to
her and asked if she would be willing to drop charges against the driver of