From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solidarity with the Palestinian and Iraqi people! ---- Original Message ----- From: Kathleen Kern, Webster, NY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: HEBRON UPDATE: February 7-12, 2001 > CPTnet > February 19. 2001 > Hebron Update: February 7th - 12th, 2001 > > Wednesday, February 7th > The first day after Ariel Sharon's electoral victory, closure and curfew > remained imposed. At noon, Palestinian gunfire from the hills around the > Israeli settlements provoked a response from the Israeli military. The > shooting lasted all afternoon > and evening, forcing the team to cancel a meeting with Nafiz Assaily, a > Palestinian proponent of non-violence. > > Thursday, February 8th > Curfew was lifted in the morning, but reimposed at noon. > > Dianne Roe, Art Arbour, and Bob Holmes visited the village of Qilqis, > south of Hebron and met with Moussa Abu Turki. Israeli soldiers > shot Moussa's uncle Ibrahim on October 13, 2000. Ibrahim is > recovering in a hospital in Saudi Arabia after spending 48 days > unconscious and in intensive care. Although the army has admitted > that the shooting was a mistake, Moussa's family has received no > apology. > > At 9:00 pm Nafiz Assaily phoned the team to cancel another meeting. > He informed the team that his son had just been arrested while walking > in the Old City of Jerusalem. > > Friday, February 9th > Field workers from Human Rights Watch interviewed CPTers for a > report that will be presented to the UN. The interviews focussed on > how CPTers are treated by Israeli settlers and soldiers. > > Saturday, February 10th > While driving to a restaurant in Bethlehem, Pierre Shantz and friends > from Beit Jala were almost hit by shots from an Israeli army base. The > army randomly sprayed hundreds of bullets into Palestinian > neighborhoods from which Palestinian gunmen were firing and into other > neighborhoods from which no one had fired. (See February 16 release: Wedding > Bells and Bullets). > > At the same time Arbour, Rebecca Johnson, and Jamey Bouwmeester > were at the restaurant, only half a block away from the Israeli base. > They were unable to leave the restaurant because it would have meant > crossing the line of fire in front of the base. For an hour they watched > tracer bullets streak across the sky into Beit Jala. > > Monday, February 12th > Holmes, Johnson, and Shantz went to the roadblock at the main > entrance into Hebron. The Israeli army had blocked that road with a 10 > foot high mound of dirt and were guarding the intersection with a > tank and a squad of soldiers. They were not allowing > Palestinians to leave the city, even on foot. However, they were not > stopping Palestinians who walked around the intersection. CPTers > spoke to the soldiers, many of whom agreed that their actions were > not increasing security, but were really intended as a method of > harassment and punishment. At one point an officer drove up, spoke > to the soldiers and said, "If they (the CPTers) give you any more > trouble, call the police." > > Roe continued past the roadblock to meet with families in Beit Ummar. > There she found access roads to the village had been > bulldozed closed. It was also reported to her that nearby Aroub > refugee camp was under curfew and workers from Beit Ummar had been > stopped by the army on the road and turned back that morning. > > > ______________________ > > Christian Peacemaker Teams is an initiative among Mennonite and Church of > the Brethren congregations and Friends Meetings that supports violence > reduction efforts around the world. Contact CPT, POB 6508 Chicago, IL 60680, > TEL. 312-455-1199 FAX 312-432-1213 / To receive news or discussion of CPT > issues by e-mail, fill out the form found on our WEB page at > http://www.prairienet.org/cpt/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/22961/_/982608631/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Knowledge is Power! Elimination of the exploitation of man by man http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change Delivery Options: http://www.egroups.com/mygroups _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
