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We only went to visit the Sharabati family, who live  in front of Beit Hadassah.

On Saturday, settlers and the  army came up to the roof of their house to prevent them from building an addition. They sent me pictures about the incident. They have been trying for a few years to add to their home a little, but the law does not permit anyone who lives around there and near the Cave of the Patriarchs and Shuhada Street to do so. He showed me a permit from 2012 signed by colonel  Avi Balot. But even then the construction was halted and the bags of cement remained. The bags were left  on the roof and have, of course,  turned into concrete.

So all of them went up the steps of the Cordoba school, from there to the kindergarten run by Umm Yazen and directly to the roof of the house. Everything under the direction of Anat Cohen (seen in the picture).

I also went up to the roof (really dangerous, some of the stairs without a railing). Zidan's little son gave me his hand and helped Grandma to get up.

Mufid says that the army took the tools of  the workers from them and now they cannot go to work elsewhere, and he has  to pay them daily for the work which they have lost “because of him.”

One can also see the settlers' homes down the street near Beit Hadassah, adding all kinds of pergolas and more. For them no construction is prohibited.

When we got down to the street I met Captain Y. who appeared in the videos and who confronted them on Saturday.

To my surprise he agreed to speak and did so politely and patiently. To explain the position of the IDF and the DCO and to listen to Sharabati’s version.

Of course  it is certain that the law is for the settlers and that  they are the persecuted minority here. And that this Palestinian family is making problems all the time. He also said that he had prevented the settlers from harming the Palestinians several times. At my request to take care of returning the tools to the workers so that they could work elsewhere, he said it was not in his hands, but he called the DCO and asked to find out d what had happened with  the tools. He received an answer (after being asked why he was asking) that the matter would now be legally examined and once resolved, the tools could be returned to their owners.

Captain I. said that he knew us well that a relative of his had once been in Machsomwatch. He  spoke sympathetically, even though he himself is from Sha’are Tikva.

We have to be very alert in this place.

Next to the grocery store of the Kapisha family, the Zion route is blocked, of course, and goods are transported there by the back-to-back method.

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