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Approaching a checkpoint (yellow gate) on the way to the family's land

Looking back at the checkpoint and the military jeep that guards it

The path the settlers built across the family's land to connect two settlements

The locked gate of one of the settlements

Fencing around the settlement built on stolen land

The field as it was when we arrived, dead grass and smothered grape vines

We get started on the process of picking grass for the goats and readying the land for planting

Grass picking and hoeing

The gated entrance to the settlement located across the street from the family's land

Another view of the supposed synagogue with grape vines in the foreground

We get some company

Army and military police and a Palestinian man on a donkey because he's not allowed to drive a car

Picking hay

Military and police pondering what to do with us

A break for sweet, minted tea is mandatory

A bigger military vehicle joins the party

Settler dudes check us out

Police and military dudes ponder the arrival of the goats

Solidiers captivated by the goats

Cute baby goat

People and goats

Goats particularly favor the grape-vines

To be or not to be amused

Some of the rotating line-up of military vehicles who came to keep an eye on us

Going home

They go home as well

A few of the small kids from the large family

Passing settler kids on the way back to our place

Group of adult male settlers all singing and dancing in a circle in a Palestinian neighborhood while on their way home from services at the mosque

Our friend being detained and harrassed by an Israeli soldier (Ethiopian) after we complained that the settlers had attacked us

Soldier stops beating on Palestinian boy and prepares to release him after we all yell at him to stop