6/24

We sat next to the soldier post and he kept pointing his gun at us, “just joking around about it of course,” ha-ha, such a funny joke. I took pictures of Palestinian children standing up against the wall. Today has been fairly calm. We kicked the ball back and forth with young Palestinian boys. One of the boys was a bully to all the younger boys and he kept asking me to take pictures of him because he wanted to see himself, he was the ham of the group. Nikki let me listen to her headphones but I gave them back to her because we never know when violence might break out and Israeli youth is known to stir up a mess. The soldiers drive their tanks through the streets very fast and the settlers also drive their cars fast around blind corners, almost like they are hoping to "accidently" kill one of the palestinian children kicking a ball in the street. One of the soldiers threw his glass bottle into the street and made a joke with his friend. They watch us, we watch them. If they do anything to hold up a Palestinian, we call our resources. Two of our group members relieved us and we made our way to the olive grove. Today was too hot for the israeli settler children to come out and throw stones in the grove. I went into the holy well (jews only) and I washed the mulberry blood off my fingers. thankfully i was able to get out of the hole in the ground before the two israeli's holding m16 rifles were able to see me. it's really dark in the well and you have to keep your head just above the water, i didn't go in, i just washed my hands. they were speaking in hebrew, talking shit, but we ignored them because we have to. I took more pictures of the burned trees and grass, I like the way olive trees smell when they are burning but I know that it isn’t a good thing around here. the trees have been around for thousands of years and it’s pretty sad to see a staple crop demolished thanks to the israeli settlers.

Next to the well sits a Palestinian grave yard, I took pictures of that too. When the settlers took over that area of H2, they danced on the graves and drank alcohol. Israeli settlers, leave their trash everywhere, filthy people, who have everything they’ll ever want given to them by their government. new maps of the area show the grave yard with a proposed road that has passed and will be laid out eventually this year; all the grave stones will be demolished and the olive trees as well. Palestinians are not allowed to drive cars in this area of the west bank, so it’s not like they’ll be using the new israeli only roads. I think I lost my keys in the well.

Last night I made a telephone call to my friend in phoenix. We’re required to have telephones in case we’re arrested, beaten up, etc. after the phone call I heard a loud bang and realized we were being stoned by local israeli’s.

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