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April 25, 2002
HEBRON: Delegation Update, April 23, 2002
Members of the affinity group led by Le Anne Clausen returned from Nablus
to Jerusalem after a day of helping clean up rubble from the
destruction of the Nablus Old City area. While passing through the
checkpoint out of Nablus, they noted several tanks being hauled on trucks
away from the area.
On the way back to Hebron, as the delegates exited their van and tried to
cross a roadblock to enter Hebron, they were detained by soldiers. The
soldiers insisted that they did not live in Hebron, and could not be allowed
to enter "because of
this new security situation within the past few weeks." When Clausen
suggested the commander consult with the military base in Hebron to verify
that they lived there, the soldiers refused to do so and threatened to
arrest them. Soldiers then ordered the group was then ordered into another
van to go back to Jerusalem. Eventually the group found safe passage into
Hebron.
While on an orientation tour of the Old City in Hebron that afternoon, two
groups of settler children who appeared to be between the ages of 7-15
approached and assaulted the delegation members by throwing stones at them
in front of the Avraham Avinu settlement. Soldiers made an attempt to
intervene while the group proceeded quietly up the street. When the
delegates passed the Beit Romano settlement in order to return to the CPT
apartment, a group of settler girls approached and threw water and more
stones at them. The soldiers stationed there again attempted to intervene.
The delegates were not seriously
injured in the attack.
Delegation members: Allyn Dhynes, Tigard, OR; Aaron
Froehlich,
Albuquerque, NM; Lorin Peters, San Leandro, CA; Steve
Ramer,
Washington, DC; Mary Hughes Thompson, Los Angeles, CA.
The team can
be reached at mobile number 011-97-2-52-323-757.
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