The kids aren't too bothered. They know they'll be back later. Meanwhile, we're getting wasted by the teargas. Some come up to us and offering lemons and onions, whose smell seems to dissipate much of the effect of the gas. They are having a great time.
Lemons are also good.
The kids are now going off down a side road, back onto the main road in front of Rachel's Tomb, which they block with portabins. They smash loose stone slabs from a building site to make rocks, walking with purpose towards the Israeli position near Rachel's Tomb. Down near the barriers where the Israelis are, the place looks like a warzone, with broken rocks carpetting the ground, rolls of barbed wire, and portable barricades. I guess that few tourists will be visiting Rachel's tomb today. To some extent Bethlehem's Palestinian residents share the same problem as their neighbours in Hebron, although to a lesser degree.