CPTnet
April 30, 2002
HEBRON UPDATE: April 30, 2002

The Israeli occupation of the entire city of Hebron continued into its
second day as the city remained under curfew.

CPTers LeAnne Clausen and Greg Rollins spent the night at Al Mazan hospital
at the request of the hospital administrator, who was afraid that Israeli
soldiers might try to enter the building and harass the staff and patients.
Soldiers, however, did not come by.

On their way home from the hospital in the morning, Clausen and Rollins
watched Israeli soldiers arrest four Palestinian men and take them away in
an Armored Personal Carrier (APC).

Rick Polhamus and Anne Montgomery visited Alia hospital where staff told
them that the previous night had been quiet.

Polhamus and Rollins walked to the Israeli District Command Office (DCO) on
the outskirts of Hebron to inquire about Palestinians who had been arrested.
There, in the courtyard of the DCO, they saw about one hundred and fifty
Palestinians sitting on the ground in handcuffs, some wearing blindfolds.
When Polhamus asked an Israeli soldier how the Palestinians were being
processed, the soldier said the peoples' records were being checked and
those who had records would be further questioned by Israeli secret
police. Those that did not have records were released.

In the hour that the two CPTers were there they saw twelve Palestinians
released. All of them had papers stating that they had been detained and
released, but three Palestinian men said that the Israelis had arrested them
twice. Polhamus asked a soldier at the DCO about the re-arrests, and the
soldier admitted that
sometimes the soldiers who arrest people do not bother to look at these
papers.