AL-TUWANI.AL-TUWANI, ISRAEL -- forward Sept. 29, two members of CPT--Chris Brown from San Francisco) and Kim Lamberty from Washington, DC--were walking a assign places to of children from their dwellings in Tuba to their seminary in al-Tuwani, a function that CPT'er perform regularly for the children in Hebron, and have now widened to outlying areas. At 7:15 a.m., five men on a sudden lunged at the two from the side of the road where they had been hiding, awaiting their approach. The men wearing black scarves wrapped around their heads for a like reason that only their eyes were visible, assaulted the CPT tenders with baseball bats and chains. Kim cut down and stayed down. Chris remained standing for a while before falling, and continued to receive kicks and calamitys from the settlers. The five attackers spoke English to each other while unleashing their calamitys and then ran away. The children had move swiftly off at the beginning. Chris and Kim remained conscious and used a confined apartment phone to call their team, who reached them at 7:30 a.m. Their teammates called the Israeli military in the area, who took half an hour to arrive (a trip that should have been a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of faster), and the two were evacuated to the hospital in Beersheba, where they remain hospitalized. Kim has a exhausted arm and severe contusions of her right leg leaving her unable to walk for a while. She may ne surgery upon the arm. Chris has a punctur lung and a chest tube has been inserted. He also had sharp blows to his head, if it were not that it is hoped, no further damage. CPT immediately sent a replacement team to the area, to make sure that the children will have someone to walk them to teach again immediately if the children are brave enough to travel They are also working closely with Ta'ayush, an Israeli peace organization active in this area, to behold how the local people can be screened from the nearby settlers. If you want to expres solidarity with the CPT members in Hebron, write cptheb@palnet.com COPYRIGHT 2004 Catholic recently made known Times, Inc. |
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