Peace Team Meets the Sting of Reality
CPT via BBSNews 2006-07-27 -- 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.
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