CPTnet
26 July 2006

HEBRON: Settler youth attack Christian Peacemaker Team member and visitor in
Hebron

by Tracy Hughes

Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) member Tracy Hughes and a CPT visitor were
walking near the Beit Hadassah settlement 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, 25 July when
a group of six to seven Israeli settler teenage boys threw large rocks at
them. One teenager had been standing against the building and called the
others out of the settlement. Hughes sustained bruises to the head and back
and the visitor sustained a cut to his leg.

The assault began within sight of the military checkpoint at the base of the
stairs to Qurtuba School. The Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint did not
respond. Hughes and the visitor tried to file a police report at the Israeli
police station in front of the Ibrahimi Mosque. A police officer told the
pair that without a photograph of the teens, filing a report would be
useless. If the pair had a photo of the teens the police could use it to
charge them with two attacks if they get reported for another attack.

This attack in the area of Duboyya Street, Beit Hadassah and Shuhada Street
is the most recent of four assaults on international peace workers in the
last month.