CPTnet October 9, 2004 HEBRON DISTRICT: Settlers again attack CPTers,
Palestinians and other international accompaniment volunteers
By Maia Williams
On Saturday, October 9, 2004 at around 3p.m., on the road from Tuba to
Tuwani, eight settlers with wooden sticks and sling shots attacked CPTers
Diana Zimmerman and Diane Janzen, an Operation Dove member (name withheld by
request), one resident from Tuwani, two residents from Tuba, and two
fieldworkers from Amnesty International, Donatella Rovera and Maartje
Houbrechts.
When the accompaniment team saw the settlers, dressed in blue jeans,
t-shirts, and masks walking toward them they called the police immediately
and began walking quickly away from the settlers. Three of the settlers
with sling shots ran after the Palestinians hurling stones at them. The
other five settlers attacked the accompaniment team. The masked settlers
hit Donatello Rovera and Diane Janzen with wooden sticks. Then the settlers
beat the Operation Dove member and stole his video camera. The settlers
finally ran away when one of the Amnesty International women yelled at the
the settlers in Hebrew, "The police are coming. You are not going to get
away with this."
The police did not arrive until thirty-five minutes after the internationals
called for help.
The army has declared the path that runs beside the Ma'on settlement a
closed military. The CPTers and Operation Dove members in Tuwani decided to
accompany the school children from Tuwani to Tuba by another, longer route.
The Operation Dove member collapsed on his way to the ambulance that took
him to the hospital in Beer Sheva; doctors treated him for a broken arm and
ruled out internal injuries.
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