Update Qalandyia 17/12/2005
Two Od-ers from 9.00 a.m. until 9.45 were at Qalandyia checkpoint.
Qalandyia checkpoint opened only to Jerusalem municipality’s citizens and internationals. More than 100 people were in line at the gates, many of them were women and students. Two, of the three gates, were closed for a long time because, in the opinion of soldiers, the people were too packed. The soldiers were yelling at the people “Don’t push and step back�. One soldier aimed his rifle at the people.
After the gates, soldiers frisked the men and they asked everyone to completely empty their bags and then to show the bags to the soldiers. A soldier used the barrel of his rifle to search the bag.

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Main facts:
Sunday 18: bulldozer working south east of Hill 833.
Tuesday 21: confiscation orders for wall near Road 317
Wednesday 22: pm escort with 2 hours delay – Settlers celebrating near At Twani in night time

Tuesday 13/12/2005
Pm escort left at 12.35 before the children arrive. After ODer called the police escort office, the police returned at 12.48 and escorted the children. No policemen walking.

Wednesday 14/12/2005
Am escort very early: at 7.26 children were in At Tuwani village.
At 7.56 am army jeep (#611283) crossed the village.
People from Am Fagarah reported that in the previous days settlers from Avi Gai went close to the village. One time they harassed two Palestinian girls grazing sheep, taking pictures of them.
At 16.20 soldiers set up a temporary checkpoint, stopping and checking the ID’s of Palestinians. They stopped 4 cars transporting iron stuff (waste) toward Al Karmil and release them after more than 20 minutes. The soldiers left about one hour later.

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Saturday 3rd December 2005
7.15 a.m., one ODer and one Cpter went to Harruba for the school patrol.
At 7.20 a.m., 9 children from Tuba were at Havat Ma’on chicken factory.
12.53 a.m., nine children went to Tuba escorted by a military jeep and two soldiers walking with them. At 13.08 the children were near the chicken factory. At 1.20 p.m., they arrived at Tuba’s hill.
1.30 p.m., one ODer reported a check-point along the dirt road from Tuwani to Jatta. A military jeep (#610769) was stopping cars and people, especially children and girls on their way home from school. Soldiers were asking them to open bags and backpacks. After 15 minutes the jeep left the place.

Sunday 4th December 2005
7.15 a.m. two ODers went to Harruba for the school patrol, when a CPTer informed them that Am-Fagarah’s inhabitants reported presence of settlers near the village. Then the two ODers went to Am-Fagarah and saw two settlers grazing a big goats flock on the Am-Fagarah’s people land. They reported that settlers were on the hill since 6.00 a.m. and that come from Avi Gai outpost almost every day to graze their flocks.
11.30 a.m. three military jeeps (#610769), (#611401), (#611283) stopped some cars along the dirt road from At-Tuwani to Karmel. After some minutes the jeeps went to Karmel’s hill.

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This morning at 7.30 a.m 10 children from Susiya, coming from Yatta and going to school with a car drove by a Palestinian man from Susiya ( Peugeot 404, Palestinian car # 9-0486-41) were stopped in them way to At-Tuwani school by a military vehicle at 15 meters from the entrance of At-Tuwani village, in Yatta/Karmel side of road 317.

Four IDF soldiers with a military jeep stopped the car and asked to the driver to come out. As soon as the driver was outside of the car, the soldiers shoved and beat him. The 10 children ran away , scared, toward At-Tuwani. Two Cpt-ers met one girl from Susiya crying and in panic. The two Cpt-ers went down to the entrance of the village and saw the car (at 15 meters from the entrance of At-Tuwani village, in Yatta/Karmel side of road 317), without people or soldiers.
Taayush was informed and called the army.

At around 8. 30 a.m , some Taayush members found the driver held by soldiers in Haribat an Nabi check point, they took him and bring him back to his car near At-Tuwani.
The driver showed to Od-ers and Cpt-ers in At-Tuwani the wounds in his wrist and said he was forced in the check point to kneel down with hands handcuff and arms near the back. The man said that the soldiers never said to him the reason of them behavior and they didn t ask to him anything. The police never was present. OD ers and Cpt ers videotape a interview to the man and took pictures of his wrist.

In Monday, 31st October 2005 (see Cpt and Od updates ) the same man and the same children were stopped in main road 317 in them way to home from At-Tuwani to Susiya, and all were force from Israelis soldiers to go and stay in Haribat an Nabi check point for more then 3 hours.

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