The At-Tuwani team had between two to three CPTers serving during the month of October.

School Patrol

Together with the members of Operation Dove, the team monitored the Israeli military accompaniment of the school children from the Tuba area as they passed near the Israeli settlement of Ma'on. Twice the soldiers failed to arrive in the afternoon, and the internationals accompanied the children back to Tuba. Four settlers, with faces masked, chased the children during one of these accompaniments, but no verbal or physical contact with the settlers occurred, and no one was injured. On another occasion, two high school students were returning to Tuba when two masked settlers stole the donkey they were riding.  Later the donkey appeared back in Tuba missing its saddle.

Shepherd Accompaniment

Team members often spent Friday or Saturday nights at Tuba and accompanied young shepherds in the morning as they grazed their flocks near the Ma'on settlement barns. When settlers approached, the shepherds generally left the area quickly. Israeli soldiers on one occasion chased young shepherds back to Tuba and arrested their brother, a university student, when he videoed the soldiers' actions. He was taken to an army base and held for five hours. On one occasion, two masked settlers attacked two members of Operation Dove as they returned from accompanying shepherds, but did not injure them. The next day, a settler on horseback challenged two CPTers and warned them to stay off the road to Tuba. Three more settlers appeared and watched the CPTers as they took a longer route.

Israeli Army Checkpoints

Soldiers often set up a temporary army checkpoint at the junction of the settler-only highway and the road from At-Tuwani to Yatta.  They stopped most vehicles and checked IDs, possibly looking for labourers travelling to or from Israel illegally across the nearby green line.  CPT and/or the Doves monitored the checkpoint and intervened when soldiers detained Palestinians for a longer time than usual. Sometimes they were able to engage the soldiers in conversation about what they were doing and why.

Advocacy

A visitor from England spent a day with the team, and a delegation of thirty Mennonites from the U.S. and Canada visited to see and hear the stories of nonviolent resistance practiced by the people of At-Tuwani to the occupation and confiscation of their land by Israeli settlers and soldiers. The team helped a Palestinian couple from At-Tuwani prepare for a November speaking tour in Italy.

Olive Harvest

The army seemed to have orders to protect the farmers from settler attack during their olive harvest.  While the families from At-Tuwani were in the Humra valley near the Ma'on settlement, two army jeeps remained on the road between the valley and the settlement for the entirety of the olive harvest, which passed without incident.