During the olive harvest period there are intensified preparations in general, and what happens is that entire Arab families come to harvest their groves. And I remember that on one of the Saturdays, the guys from the settlement (settlers from Pnei Kedem, Tekoa area) went, say 10-12 people, women and men, and just tried to drive them out of there and tell them: This is not yours, why are you doing this on a Saturday, why are you doing this here? And things like that. And I was just... The aim was obviously both to prevent friction and also to provide security for photographers, whether they were foreigners or Jews (activists in Ta’ayush, a grassroots Israeli- Palestinian volunteer organization) who would come to film everything that was going on there, because the settlers don’t really like the photographers either.

Is there someone who leads the settlers? There is the... What do you call him?

CSC (Civilian Security Coordinator, a settler in charge of the security of the settlement, appointed by the Ministry of Defense)? CSC. He actually isn’t usually one of the leaders of this thing (the harassment of Palestinian farmers), but you do see him in the area, and [it’s] usually the same people, because it’s a very small settlement. I can’t point to anyone specifically. They just don’t like it when the Arab population gets so close to land that they think may be theirs.