What was the demonstration in [Kfar] Qaddum about? Why were the Palestinians demonstrating?

A road. They had a road shut down, I don't know what happened there security-wise, but they reached a decision that it's not safe enough that the guys…

Where does the road pass? It passes by Kedumim if I'm not mistaken. They widened the road and it forces them to drive around. [There was a] regular routine, [every] Friday. [We] gather at Kedumim, it's a slightly higher point than the outskirts of

QaddumWe would come and observe in the beginning to see what's going on, prepare the means for getting through demonstrations, and that's it, there was a relatively regular routine that we come and outflank them [the Palestinian demonstrators] from the hill. There were guys [soldiers] who would hide prior in all sorts of locations, there were a few attempts like that.

Hide in order to? Hide in order to try to pick one of them, catch one of them, of the demonstrators.

And the place where you were stationed, was it inside or outside the village? We prepare just outside Kedumim, they prepare outside Kfar Qaddum and then begin to approach each other, each in his own way, oftentimes in cooperation with the border police, I recall. I remember that we would often reach a situation in which we got mad and tried to shoot them directly with the Ringo gas (tear gas launcher). To the credit of my commander, he was often angry about that. Not that he did anything. We knew it was forbidden but you're in a tempest there, you're hit by stones and you find yourself also shooting directly (shooting tear gas grenades straight at the body of demonstrators rather than at an angle above them, as required by IDF fire regulations) and you know that the rules are not… But, in fact, at some stage you feel that we're not doing anything here, we're being hit by stones, we're shooting all sorts of gas and they [the demonstrators] don't mind the gas and you feel hopeless, because what are you actually doing here every Friday? And then you say: we'll do something, we'll shoot directly at them. If somebody throws stones directly at us, we'll try to hit him directly. It seems very parallel and sensible. Is this the right location?