Usually, walls and fences inside Palestine are constructed in order to protect Israelis from Palestinians. But Suraiya, an old woman living alone in a house next to a settlement in the outskirts of Hebron would be relieved, if the fence bordering the settlement could effectively protect her. Young settler kids, approximately between 8 and 14 years old, destroyed parts of the fence on Tuesday afternoon, threw stones on the house destroying most of the windows. The next morning Israeli police told us that army would come to protect Suraiya and her house, but they only stopped at a sight about 200 m behind the fence and the kids (which continued their 'operations' all the time) and didn't intervene until sunset.

We stayed two nights at the house. The old woman was so scared that she didn't dare to sleep and spent all the night praying.