CPTnet
November 9, 2002
HEBRON UPDATE: October 22-27, 2002

Tuesday, October 22, 2002
No Curfew

CPT'ers Christine Caton and Kathie Uhler observed soldiers at a checkpoint
near the schools stopping a small boy and looking at some papers he was
holding. The boy saw the CPT'ers, pointed to them, and the soldier let him
pass. A little later, thesame two soldiers put on their helmets and
prepared to walk down the hill. Caton asked them where they were going and
they said they were going to make sure there was no trouble down the hill
(toward the schools.) Caton replied that she and Uhler would follow them.
After hearing this, instead of going down the hill toward the schools, they
walked a different path up another road.

Bob Holmes and Bourke Kennedy gave six trade unionists from Great Britain a
tour. While the group was passing behind the Avraham Avinu settlement in
the market, rocks were hurled onto a mesh covering above them. The group
was startled but not hurt.

Kennedy saw three Israeli soldiers going up to the roof of the CPT apartment
building. She asked them what they were doing there and they told her it
was of no concern to her. One of them told her if she caused trouble he
would have her arrested. She told them it was her roof and she was going up
there to read. She then observed them playing war games on the roof,
pretending to shoot one another and making "pow,pow,pow" shooting sounds.
Within five minutes they finished, left the roof and returned to the street.

Wednesday, October 23, 2002
No Curfew

Mary Yoder, Donna Hicks, and Kennedy went on school patrol. Kennedy and
Hicks spoke with the headmistress of one of the schools who told them that
things are so bad now that she does not read the newspapers or watch the
television news. The Israeli Army forced her brother and his family to
leave their home four days earlier and are still occupying the home.

Uhler, the new Campaign for Secure Dwellings (CSD) Co-Director, went with
one of the team translators to Al Sendas to meet with several CSD families
whose homes the Israeli military had recently demolished and others who have
received demolition orders from the Israeli Army.

Thursday, October 24, 2002
No Curfew

Authorities at Ben Gurion airport refused long time CPTer Kathy Kern entry
into Israel and deported her back to the United States. [See October 24
release "Christian Peacemaker Denied Entry to Israel."]

Kennedy and Hicks went with a team translator to the Ibrahimi Mosque soup
kitchen. A large vat of bulgar wheat soup was distributed into containers
to the people there. Hebronites see the soup kitchen as an important part
of the local tradition of hospitality.

Friday, October 25, 2002 No Curfew
Caton and Yoder went to the Ibrahimi Mosque to meet a tour group. While
they were waiting they saw a huge crowd running toward the mosque, so they
followed to see what had happened. They met their team translator there,
who told them that, along with three young men, soldiers had beaten her.
Caton and Yoder called for reinforcements. Mary Lawrence and Anderson went
with the translator to the police station in the Kiryat Arba settlement to
make a complaint. They waited several hours without being helped and
finally had to leave because it was getting dark. [See October 31 release,
"My Name is Richard II."]

Saturday, October 26, 2002
No Curfew

Caton, Anderson, and Holmes went to Bethlehem for a meeting concerning
nonviolence training of students at Bethlehem University.

The team in Hebron received a call concerning families whom the Israeli
military was evicting from their homes in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron.

Sunday, October 27, 2002
No Curfew