CPTnet
13 November 2007
HEBRON: Soldiers attempt to search Christian Peacemaker Team premises
by Donna Hicks
On Sunday 11 November 2007 around 4:30 p.m., Christian Peacemaker Team
(CPT) members Lorne Friesen, Jessica Frederick, Eileen Hanson, and Donna
Hicks followed a patrol of six Israeli soldiers entering Hebron's Old City.
The soldiers turned into the street on which the CPT premises are located,
checking doorways along the way. When the soldiers unlatched the CPT street
door, Hanson asked them what they were doing, saying they were entering the
CPT home and that CPT had not invited them to enter.
When the soldiers and CPTers reached the patio outside the home, the
soldiers demanded that the family and guests in the neighboring apartment
leave so the soldiers could search the apartment for weapons. Friesen said
that CPT had no weapons. Hanson demanded to see a search warrant and said
again that the homeowners had not invited the soldiers in. While the leader
of the patrol communicated with an officer on the radio, CPT's neighbor
translated what her small niece was saying: that she was not happy because
soldiers sometimes enter her home, that she remembered the night Israeli
soldiers told all the men to come outside and they were rounded up.
After further conversations on the radio, the soldiers departed around 5:00
p.m. without searching the premises.
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