Thursday 3 May
No events to be reported
Friday 4 May
An At Tuwani villager reported that settlers from Avigail were harassing Palestinian farmers trying to harvest the field above Avigaiyl outpost. The internationals walked there.
At 9:30 am the team arrived at the fields behind Avigaiyl outpost . Settlers had been there and left. Two families were harvesting and one army jeep with 4 soldiers was at the top of the hill ,closest to the settlement but on the other side of the settlement access road.
At 9:55 a white jeep arrived (#5224217) Two soldiers and the DCO spoke to the Palestinian landowner.
DCO left at 10:20 am.
At 1:15 pm another jeep arrived (#610769) and four soldiers talked with the families again and asked two younger men ( who were from Yatta and helping their family) to leave.
The jeep left at 1:30pm.
At 4:30 another jeep arrived with six soldiers. (#611019) The soldiers checked the ID’s of the Palestinian men and again requested that the two younger men leave the area near the road. The landowner told them that the DCO had been out earlier and that they were allowed to harvest. At about 5:30pm three settlers (young men) ran out of Avigaiyl on the road. One carried a gun. They began to come into the field where the families were harvesting but turned back to the road when an international ran for a camera. They continued running along the road for about five minutes and then turned around and ran back to Avigaiyl.
At about 6:30pm the Palestinians left for home.
At noon four soldiers (jeep # 610769) set up a checkpoint between At-Tuwani and El Birki with a nail strip and barricades in the road. The soldiers were stopping most every vehicle, but didn’t seem to be causing any problems.
At 1:00 pm the soldiers started dismantling the checkpoint and left.
Saturday 5 May
Near Avigayil outpost soldiers detained one palestinian man there to harvest for one and a half hours while a family member went to fetch his ID. He was released.
Sunday 6 May
Monday 7 May
Tuesday 8 May
Wednesday 9 May
No events to be reported
Thursday 10 May
At 3:30pm there was a checkpoint on 317road. Doves and CPTers responded. 4 soldiers (jeep # 610769) blocked traffic for about an hour. Soldiers asked the six Palestinian men to get out of one vehicle. They inspected the trunk and interior of the car.
At 6:30pm there were soldiers on the road. The team responded. Three IDF trucks were on the road to Yatta, and two of which were in the Palestinian field by the road. (#610850, #611402, #611320, #667381). Several tractors coming from Yatta were backed up behind the trucks. One truck and an IDF medic ambulance were on 317road. A long line of cars was stopped on 317.
Friday 11 May
In the morning there was an action near Al Buweib, in front the settlement of Pnei Hever. Two Doves and two CPT went there, they left from Tuwani at eight o’clock. At 9:00 am they arrived in Al Buweib and , a bit down from the village, they met with about 15 people of the Red Crescent and other 20 Palestinian people. There were also some land owners and five Palestinian women.
Then everybody joined the place of the action, the hill in front of Pnei Hever settlement, at 9:25am.
At 9:40 am a car (#51 141 24) with two young settlers and a tractor driven by a settler came on the top of the hill. A settler and some Palestinans began to talk. The car went a bit down from the hill, where there was a group of Palestinian people, but at once it came back near the tractor. At this point a lot of people began to come: in the first two IDF jeeps (#610010 #6112650) and a sort of tank (#252014). The soldiers separeted the settlers from the Palestinian. A little time after arrived also about ten peace activists from Ta’ayush, one member of CPT and other four settlers (one of the settlement security riding a horse). The settlers were about eight. Then the border police (#61116) joined the place and then the Israeli police (# 3142) too. In the end DCO (#8385715) arrived.
Settlers showed their maps to DCO people, then it was the turn of Palestinian land oweners to speak with the DCO.
In the end, the decision was that the Palestinian were allowed to work in their lands and some soldiers had to stay there to protect them.
At 5:10 pm an army jeep (# 610769) stopped near the Market of At Tuwani village to search a vehicle the soldiers claimed was stolen. They left at 6:20 pm.
Saturday 12 May
Sunday 13 May
Monday 14 May
No events to be reported
