In Hebron there's Worshippers' route and some other route, Erez alley maybe. There's the road and there's this low wall of sorts next to which there are mounds of construction debris, it's hard to walk there. I remember they told us to tell the Arabs to walk along the side with the construction debris and not on the road so that there wouldn't be any friction with the Jews. And I remember there were times when I told my commander that I won't. These are elderly people, it was a woman with bags and stuff, I'm not going to tell her, "Go cross over there now."

And what did the commander say? He didn't stay with me at my post – we’re each positioned a certain distance apart. When he passed by once, he told me that it's unacceptable to not do it, and that there’s no room here for my personal judgment call. I said “OK” and kept doing my thing, exercising my judgment. And I remember being at some other place, also in Hebron, in some alley or something, there was this house where an old man was taking care of sheep in the house, in the house's yard. And I remember that settlers from Kiryat Arba came, about three or four, they looked about 25 years old, they came and harassed this old man, this Palestinian, curses, and they, like, slapped their butts, harassed him. He was really helpless and started to tear up a bit. I immediately told them, "Leave him alone," I stopped the situation a bit. I approached them, I tried to break up the situation. And then they said, "It's nothing, we're just having a laugh." I told him (one of the settlers), "What laugh? This is an elderly man, I mean, we're here so that these kinds of problems won't happen, and you come and cause the problems?" And then they left. This old man started tearing up and went back inside. When he came out, I told him that I'm sorry about the situation. He brought me some tea. He turned out alright. And then TIPH (international monitors who operate in Hebron) arrived, they spoke with him.