Update from Tuwani, 27th september-7th october 2004

27th September 2004
At 12.20 p.m., two volunteers (one from CPT and one from Operation Dove) started walking with 5 children from Tuwane?s school to the children?s home in Tuba. They walked on the street between Maon settlement and Maon Hill outpost. They arrived at 12.50 in Tuba, where the volunteers spoke with the family about the difficulties to live in the place without using the road to Tuwani because of the settlers harassment to everyone passing by this road. The 4-5 families in Tuba are very poor and they live in caves. They are farmers and shepherds and they don?t have houses in other places. Only one of them has a tractor. One of the children looks like undernourished.
The children are forced to take a 6 kilometres way to reach the school, instead of the 2km one that is forbidden because of the settler?s violences.

28th September 2004
At 6.15 a.m., three volunteers from Cpt and one from Operation Dove started walking to Tuba on the ?short way?. They arrived in Tuba at 6.45 and walked back to Tuwani together with the children. They arrived in the school in Tuwani at 7.20 a.m.
At 11.30a.m., two volunteers tried to go to Yatta together with people from Tuwani with a car. In the junction between the main street to Hebron and the way entering in Tuwani, they found a military craft. The soldiers stopped and prevented them to continue. The officer said the area of Yatta was closed for three days for security reason, because the army was looking for terrorists. In the evening Kim and George discovered that what the soldiers said wasn?t true and that D.C.O. never ordered to close the area.
At 12.20p.m., one volunteer from Cpt and one from Operation Dove walked from Tuwani to Tuba together with the children in the ?short way?. They arrived in Tuba around 12.50p.m. They started to come back around 12.55 and when they were walking in the middle of the road, in front of the gate to Maon settlement and the junction with the street to the outpost, they met a man from the Settlement Security with a car. The man stopped the volunteers and ask them where were they going and where they were from. They said they are friend of the families in Tuba and Tuwani and were coming back from Tuba because of their accompaniment for the children from Tuwani to Tuba. The m

Update from At-Tuwani – September 13-18, 2004

14th September
11.30 a.m. : one military jeep on the Main Road n. 317 forbids a tractor coming from Yatta to cross the road to reach At-Tuwani. The tractor is transporting concrete bricks for sheep’s shelters. The volunteers are in village in that moment, they go down to the road, but the jeep, as soon as the tractor returns back, goes away.

Update from Abud village, 15 September – 9 September, 2004

REPORT FROM ABUD VILLAGE
OPERATION DOVE
SEMPTEMBER 15TH 2004

On september 15th,

At 7,40 one jeep and one vagon from IDF stayed in the entrance of the village.
The soldiers started to check people which were waiting for the taxi to Ramallah.

Update on Operation Dove from Aboud, 31 August – 5 September, 2004

31 august
At 11.15 p.m. 3 hammers and one military ambulance, entered in the village. Two hammers stationed in the muslim side, on the Main Street, and arrested two youth that were sitting out of a shop. After 30 minutes the two youth were released.