Monday July 3, 2006
Soldiers prevented Palestinians from watering sheep at Bier Jabareen
At 9 am at Bier Jabareen, a well below Avi Gai outpost owned and used by Palestinian shepherds, three soldiers walked down from Avigail and ordered all the shepherds to leave as they were forbidden to access the well. Internationals talked to the soldiers and called the lawyer while the shepherds started to move from the well. An hour later a different soldier told the internationals that shepherds can water their flocks but they have to approach from beside or below. By this time the flocks were dispersed, and none returned to the well.
Tuesday 4 July, 2006
Settlers attacked and injured shepherds and sheep from Maghayir al Abeed
At 7:40am the white pickup truck of Ma’on settlement security coordinator drove to Avigail and then half-way down the slope from Avigail to Bier Jabareen.
The first shepherds approached from below at 7:45, Maon security coordinator and a soldier filmed internationals and shepherds at the well. By 9am settlement security coordinator left and the soldier walked back to the settlement. By 9:30 the flocks were all watered and the shepherds left.
A shepherd from Maghayir al Abeed reported that around 5pm three settlers attacked him and his 9 year old son, and their sheep. He was grazing his sheep near his well (Bier Shahadi) when a white Izuzu truck with three unmasked male settlers pulled up. The three settlers got out of the truck and began attacking with slingshots broking two sheeps’ legs and hitting the child in his left leg with a rock. The internationals called the police. At 5:35 pm a blue police vehicle (#22768) parked at the clinic in At Tuwani. Policemen told the internationals that they were afraid to drive to Maghayir al Abeed because they were only two and they needed an army escort in order to bypass the outpost. Police asked the Palestinian shepherd to come to At Tuwani in order to make the report. Obviously the shepherd refuse as he also was afraid to pass by the outpost.
Wednesday 5 July, 2006
A settler set fire to an house in Susiya
Army temporarily confiscating an area near At Tuwani junction
At 9:35 am Palestinians from Susiya reported that a settler set fire to a home near Susiya. A Dove and a CPTer arrived on the place as a police jeep left and found that the roof had been burned off of a stone house with a tarp roof.
At 12:20 pm two soldiers in a white truck (yellow tag #78-648-50) arrived at the clinic in At Tuwani and spoke with some people of the village. They said that they need to use some land for 45 days because they have a “big operation.â€? The truck then drove up to the village’s shop, soldiers spoke with other men from the village and then gave them an order with a map. It looks that the military are temporarily confiscating an area on the other side of Route 317, near the road to Yatta. The soldiers left at 12:53 pm.
Thursday 6 July 2006
No incidents to report
Friday 7 July 2006
Flying checkpoint on the road between At Tuwani and Yatta
At 4:45 internationals arrived beyond 317. Humvee 702835 was present with 4 soldiers searching a tractor, while 10 minutes later jeep 611332 drove by toward Karmil. The jeep moved further up the road and began stopping many vehicles that were coming to At Tuwani for a wedding ceremony. Soldiers were demanding that the men take the license plates off their cars and did not give them receipts for the plates. They proceeded into At-Tuwani. The soldiers allowed about 75% of the people to pass towards At Tuwani. Eventually they allowed the wedding party to pass back toward Yatta without stopping them.
Soldiers went on checking some IDs moving the flying checkpoints several times in different points of the road between Al Karmil and Road 317. The Humvee left at 6:45.
Saturday, 8 July 2006
Military stop a water action in Susiya
Settlers put a gate on the road between At Tuba and At Tuwani
Around 10am Palestinians reported that settlers ran out through Khoruba toward a shepherd from Maghayir al Abeed, but he ran away.
In Susiya by 10am local Palestinians, Israeli and international peace activists carried out an action to get some water from Bier Jaber Mohani. The cisterns belong to the Palestinians and was dug in 1993, the builder lives in Yatta but has some relatives in Susiya. Two pickups, several tractors pulling tank trailers (with water pumps), and about twenty people drove from Susiya to Bier Jaber Mohani. The first two tractors backed their trailers to the cistern but then 15 soldiers displayed a closed military zone order and threatened everyone with arrest ending the action. The Palestinians do not want to coordinate with the military as the cisterns belong to them, not to the Israeli military and also because negotiations and coordination usually leave the Palestinians out.
The village had information that a gate has closed the road from Tuba to At-Tuwani. The road, below the old chicken house, now runs between the old and new chicken houses. A Cpter and some Israeli peace activist drove there to check and film the closed gate.
On the drive back around Havot Ma’on, several settlers (from the black tarp house and from the white caravan) blocked the road and spat in the cars’ windows. Police arrived, and so did some more settlers. After five minutes the police moved the settlers off the road so that the peace activists could drive back to the village. Here the police returned a confiscated Israeli ID and ordered all the Israelis to leave this closed military zone.
Military and border police set a checkpoint at Road 317 stopping only traffic coming or going from Yatta. (Military jeeps license numbers. 611533, 611019 and Border Police 611104) . Border police were taking a license plate from a car and apparently were not giving a receipt for the seizure. At 13.50 pm all the vehicles left ending the checkpoint.
Sunday 9 July 2006
No incidents to report
Monday July 10, 2006
Several police and army movements in the area
At 10:42 a.m. police were noticed at Route 317 with b9 vehicles: 4 big blue police trucks, 3 of which were clearly marked as border police; 4 white cars; and 1 police van. They all had red plates and blue lights. The police left at 10:56 am .
At around 10 pm a police vehicle drove along the road by Havat Ma’on, toward the black tarp, another military vehicle drove by the village and one vehicle (#702853) turned around to speak with the CPTers and Operation Dove. The soldiers said that they had received a call that somebody were throwing rocks in At-Tuwani. As everything was quiet soldiers left.
Tuesday 11 July 2006
Army builds an antenna between At Tuba village and Maon settlement
During the morning sheep watering at Bier Jabareen two settlers came near the well with their flock of goats but did not interfere with the process.
At 11am Palestinians reported that settlers were building something near AtTuba. CPTers observed some type of activity on the hill between the new chicken barns and Tuba. The workers did not seem to mind that they were present. One man told they were building a communications tower for the army. They were leveling a 4-5 meter square area. The license number of the vehicle at the scene was 66-128-15.
Wednesday 12 July 2006
No incidents to report
Thursday 13 July
Army blocked the opening of the short wall at At Tuwani. Police and army declared the area closed military zone in order to prevent people from protesting.
At 10:10 a CPT saw a crane truck blocking the opening of the short wall near At-Tuwani with cement blocks. The soldiers said they are closing the road following high orders because “bad people use it�. The soldiers said that they were permanent. Blocks prevent any vehicle to pass and allow only people by foot and sheep. If donkeys are unloaded of any burden, most of them are able pass through the blocks and then be reloaded.
CPTers reported that at 1 pm an army Humvee stood at At Tuwani junction on Road 317. Men from At Tuwani were asking for the blocks to be moved. More soldiers arrived and began asking for some of the mens ID’s. At 14:15 a police jeep arrived. The police took CPT passports briefly and said they were filing a police report because the people wanted to cross the road and were not allowed by the army. Many army vehicles came and went mean while some to Palestinians transferred things to donkeys to be taken to At Tuwani and Am Fagarah. The police officer told the people that the reason the opening was closed was because it was too dangerous for vehicles to cross, that accidents might happen. After 3 pm two jeeps of border police arrived and told the people that a closed military zone order was coming and at that point they would all be arrested. At 16:15 after consulting with Limor from ACRI and Hahmed from OCHA the people decided to withdraw. They parked their tractors high up on one of the hills and brought donkeys down from the village to carry purchases home. Cars from the village remained parked near the road block.
Friday 14 July 2006
No incidents to report
Saturday 15 July 2006
No incidents to report
Sunday 16 July 2006
Three Doves went to Humra to accompany a shepherd. At 7.40 a green jeep came down Hill 833 and turn left (towards the black tarp house). At 7.47 it passed again the same way. At 7.55 the vehicle came again from the black tarp, drove down hill and stopped some hundreds meters from the internationals. The jeep stood some five minutes and left at 8.10 by the middle path (Tuba direction).
Monday July 17, 2006
No incidents to report
Tuesday July 18, 2006
No incidents to report
Wednesday 19 July
No incidents to report
Thursday 20 July
No incidents to report
Friday 21 July
No incidents to report
Saturday 22 July 2006
In the afternoon around 6 pm an army jeep 710679 and humvee 702853 drove around the village for about 15 minutes and then left. They did not stop except for few minutes outside the store.
Sunday 23 July 2006
Police detained a man in Kiryat Arba for driving along route 317
At around 11.30 am the team received word that there was a police jeep near the school. The jeep number was 11-408. As the team arrived the police were about to confiscated a Palestinian plate number. The policeman then asked the car owner to go into the jeep and told the Doves that he was not being arrested, only taken to make a statement. The team learned from the villagers that the Palestinian man had been driving his car on route 317, returning from Yatta, that the police had followed him. The team notified lawyers and OCHA also in order to clarify the position of Palestinians driving on this section on route 317. In the evening the team was notified that the man has been released from Kiryat Arba after his lawyers paid 1000 shekel.
