A. Construction Expansion by Israelis

1. Circuit road around Kiryat Arba (3 March start)
2. Expansion of Beit Romano Yeshiva -- (ongoing)
3. Building near Avriham Avino (near a small mosque) and associated demolition of Palestinian home (ongoing)
4. Surveying by Israelis on Tel Rumeida

B. Demolition Orders Received by Palestinian Families

1. Five in North-west sector of Hebron city
2. Approximately 22 in Ba'aka area to east of Hebron
3. Over 75 other Palestinian families from Hebron district have been threatened with demolition or received orders to leave their homes

C. Palestinian Homes Raided;

in each location police and soldiers raided, ravaged homes and strip searched women after Israeli High Court order to provide protection for these families near Kiryat Arba

1. Shakir Dana family
2. Abdel Halim Shukri Dana family } all on 2/13/97
3. Sameh Dana family

D. Recent Arrests

1. Radi Shabaneh (4 Feb. 1997, 2a.m.)
2. Two young men, Joad and Jaweed of the Dana family (13 Feb. 1997, 5 a.m.)

E. Farm and Garden Destruction

1. Daoud Jamal (12 Feb. 1997, 1p.m.; 15 olive trees, 10 grape vines, onions, peanuts, spinach, radishes uprooted)
2. Farmers between Kiryat Arba and Harsina have been prevented from working in their fields or harvesting their crops

F. Palestinian Home Demolitions

1. Beni Naim, Imad Rajibi (12 Feb. 1997; same dozer as Daoud Jamal)
2. Sair, Amed Rashid El Amtour (12 Feb. 1997)
3. Idna, Muhammad Khalil Rashit Sawifeh (12 Feb. 1997)
4. A Faas, Falel Abu Sneineh (12 Feb. 1997), Sharif Al Rajibi (12 Feb. 1997)
5. In all, nearly a dozen homes in the Hebron District have been demolished since the Hebron Accords.

G. Israeli Occupation Presence in Hebron

1. Checkpoints -- normally 8-12, and on Jewish Sabbath 6-10 more
2. Military Camps -- 7
3. Tanks -- 6; report of as many as 30 sighted, 2 were unloaded at the market as the month of March began
4. Military Exercises -- sometimes two times a day; once covering all of H-2
5. Joint Mobile Patrols circle Hebron

Submitted by Christian Peacemaker Teams, Hebron March 14, 1997