Often on Saturdays, you’re just chilling, doing your thing, then suddenly you get a call from the soldiers at the Area C Operations Room (A hotline operated by the Civil Administration which Israelis can call to report on unauthorized Palestinian construction) or one of the representatives from the local council. There are these representatives who are responsible for monitoring things on the ground and ensuring there’s no illegal construction and so on.

Are they (the representatives) from the [settlements’] regional councils?They’re from the councils, exactly.

Settlers?Settlers, yes. [They’re] really in constant contact with the military. And by the way, they have authorization to fly drones too, from the military. You won’t see a Palestinian flying a drone, checking the same thing on the other side. But they fly drones, and then they suddenly call the operations room. You get a report from the operations room, there’s a truck now or there are some workers now with an excavator, plowing a field in an area they’re not allowed to plow, state-owned land. Or there are some Palestinians with a cement mixer truck, pouring a new balcony. You immediately head out to the field, have a conversation to clarify things, check with the infrastructure officer whether to confiscate – no, yes, what, put that resident’s truck in the impound lot – and that’s it. It’s like a routine event.