At the house adjacent to the Red House, (referred to as the “House of Contention” by the media, the “House of Peace” by the settlers, and "Rajabi House" by the Palestinians) a festive wedding was held at night, between 10 PM to 11 PM . It wasn’t the middle of night at all. And we receive an order: go, tell them to turn down the music, it’s late, they should turn down the music. It’s ten, eleven at night, not that late [but] it obviously disturbs the [settlers’] children at the Red House, because they’re no older than seven-year-old kids who should be asleep at such hours, but… We had to go to the wedding and tell them to turn the music down. This really bothered me, this incident, because [we] simply stand there with our gear, with a helmet, tons of Palestinians, we tell them that it’s late and that they have to turn off the music. And you, like, think to yourself [that], like, the last thing a Palestinian wants at his wedding is for someone to come and ruin his celebration. And they don’t want problems so they know not to start arguing, and they won’t start mouthing off and getting mad because they want everything to end peacefully. Now, this was an upsetting incident because it’s a bummer to do it, but what’s more important is how the order came about. The only way we could have known there was a wedding there was for someone from the [Red] House to report it because it bothers him, and it bothers only certain people, that is the people who live in the "House of Peace."
In any case, it wasn’t you, the soldiers, who reported the wedding. We received the order from the company. It could only have come from one place, the advancement of an order to wrap things up there. Either someone who lives on the other side of the wadi [in Kiryat Arba], or someone who lives in the Red House. And yes, there are known cases of direct line between settlers and the (military) command, the company commanders. If it was a Jewish wedding, let's just say the Palestinians wouldn’t have been able to say a word, if there was a huge event in Kiryat Arba, a wedding or anything, any event.