On team during this period were Nina Chiba, Jean Fallon, Fathiyeh Gainey, Maureen Jack, Alwyn Knight, Barbara Martens, Ryan Schiffer, and Paulette Schroeder.

17 February

Soldiers at the Mosque checkpoint allowed only one child at a time to go through the turnstiles and checked every backpack.  Two teenagers gave up in frustration, and probably missed a day of school.

18 February

One soldier at the Mosque checkpoint yelled at the Palestinians who were setting off the alarm with their cell phones and other personal items.  He insisted that young men go through repeatedly until nothing tripped the alarm.  He spoke to CPTers after the crush was over and said there had been huge numbers going through and he could not keep up with what he was expected to do.

Planning meetings for the” Open Shuhada St. Action” began.  CPTers attended with the organizers.

19 February

Chaos continued at the Mosque turnstile as soldiers permitted only one person at a time to go through for prayers.  A group of waiting Palestinians began to chant, “Allahu Akbar.”  Very soon after the chanting began, soldiers allowed the men to file through swiftly.

22 February

With the announcement by Binyamin Netanyahu declaring the Ibrahimi Mosque was a Jewish (only) historical site, much unrest followed on the streets in Hebron.  At the Qitoun and Beit Romano checkpoints, Palestinians threw rocks and soldiers responded with tear gas and sound grenades. 

23 February

A friend of the team in the Old City called to say that soldiers had arrested her son, whom she had sent to buy bread, and four of his friends.  The military accused him of throwing a stone.

25 February

Palestinians from all over the West Bank, Israelis and internationals participating in the Open Shuhada Street action, came down from Tel Rumeida toward Shuhada Street.  The Israeli military blocked the road.  Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti was in the front line of the procession.  The Israeli military almost immediately shot off tear gas and sound grenades.  One Palestinian woman was overcome by gas and one man was taken away in an ambulance.  Jack spoke to the military after the demonstration, saying, “This is not right.  This has been a non-violent demonstration and you have replied with tear gas.  This is not right.”

26 February

Young men (shabab) in various parts of the city started to throw stones in their areas, in response to Netanyahu’s announcement.  The military responded usually with tear gas. 

26 February

On the regular school patrol at Al Bweireh, four male teenage settlers passed CPTers on the path.  Two of them took photos of the CPTers and one settler spat in their direction.  Another responded to the CPTers’ greeting of “Shalom” with “Jesus pig.”

Palestine National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad came to pray at the Ibrahimi mosque.

1 March
Fallon and Schiffer visited the Old City home of a family whose twenty-year old son whom soldiers had had arrested the previous day for throwing stones.  His mother did not know where soldiers were detaining him.  The son had already served a six-moth sentence for stone-throwing.

 3 March 
Gainey and Jack took part in a demonstration of women from the Hebron area who were going to pray at the Ibrahimi mosque.  Soldiers locked them out for twenty-five minutes, but eventually let them through.  After attending prayer in the mosque, they returned through the Old City without incident

5 March
Responding to the announcement by the Israeli prime minister designating the Ibrahimi Mosque as a Jewish historical site, an Imam led about fifty men down the hill from the mosque entrance after Friday prayers.  A line of soldiers blocked their way.  The Palestinians edged forward, but were stopped by more soldiers.  The soldiers fired a round of tear gas canisters, followed by sound grenades, and the Palestinians dispersed. 

 

16 March
Israeli soldiers detained a young man with learning difficulties, accusing him of throwing a stone.

Palestinian young men, many of them masked, were throwing stones and burning tyres between Bab il Baledeyya and Bab iZaweyya.  No Palestinian soldiers or police were present.
 
17 March
There were further clashes at Bab il Baledeyya, where about twenty Palestinian Authority military were present in full riot gear; they used tear gas and sound grenades and arrested about twenty young men.  Many local contacts expressed anger at the behaviour of the Palestinian military. 
Morning school patrol at the Qitoun checkpoint concluded without incident, but at 8.00 a.m., a Palestinian adult started to throw stones at the checkpoint.  Several children joined them and soldiers responded with tear gas. 

19 March
The clashes continued, with sporadic use of tear gas and sound grenades, throughout the afternoon and evening.  While CPTers were present, most of the stone-throwing was by adults.
 
23 March 
Israeli soldiers entered a house in the Old City, and ordered the entire family onto the roof.  A soldier at a permanent post on the roof of an adjacent house then ordered the three teen-aged girls to stand to one side.  They accused one thirteen year-old of throwing a stone.  More soldiers came to escort her from her house.  A Palestinian woman shouted at the soldiers, “She's a girl!  This is a girl!  You can't arrest her.”  This woman was finally allowed to accompany the girl to Kiryat Arba police station, where police questioned her and later released her.

28 March
At the suggestion of the Advisory Council, CPT hosted a meeting of young men from the Old City.  Twelve young men attended, together with members of the Advisory Council.  One of the needs they identified was for English lessons.  They also hoped that the football (soccer) team would start up again.

31 March
The Dream Theatre and Arts Centre—a Palestinian initiative in Hebron and surrounding villages—performed for children and their mothers in the street outside the CPT apartment.  The Centre uses puppetry, drama, painting, etc. under the direction of Abdul Mari Jabari to teach non-violence, and to help young people deal with the traumas they experience because of the Occupation.