I did mappings once, which is defined as a patrol from the Eastern Kasbah to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. It’s actually a very beautiful area, just… Things got a bit messy in Hebron when we were there, so they reassigned the areas, and my platoon got this area to patrol. So things were a bit messy but we would patrol. The directive was to enter the Eastern Kasbah and conduct mappings. What are mappings? Getting to know the people, seeing if there’s any particular trend, conducting a census to understand who the people are. In my opinion, that was just my company commander’s interpretation, when he gave that order.

How can you get to know the people? You can’t. You simply ask for their family names and try to create a picture of who lives where and which family is larger. Why? I don’t know.

That’s how he explained the mission of mappings? to get to know the people? To get to know the area, to figure out the families, that’s how he explained it. In the end it's just people walking into your home at 5 PM. It was during the day, not the middle of the night, at noon, usually afternoon. It wasn’t in order to wake the people up in the middle of the night, but it was simply an order to walk around there and enter houses, to understand…

Could you decide which house to enter? Yes. [In] every house you go up, enter the house, walk around the roofs.

And the goal was to enter all the houses? Not all the houses.

How many houses? Whatever you choose? Yes, and to conduct security checks in the area.