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"Palestine-Support" | 26.11.2006 11:20 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

18 Nov 06 Hebron Day

At 11.30 three of us went to the olive groves to protect the Palestinian
families living in isolated homes among the olive trees.

Two settlers came towards us from the Seyaj House yelling abuse at us “Fuck
Jesus. We killed Jesus and we’ll kill you too ! “ We began filming and kept
ourselves between them and the Palestinian homes. They tried to enter Hani’s
house where we knew there was a number of small children and two women. We
refused to let them up the path and they headed off up into the Abu Haikal
olive orchard. We contacted other Human Rights Workers (HRW’s) to make sure
that there were people at the Abu Haikal house in case they made their way
there.

We did not see them again but as we were checking the olive orchard to see where
they had gone we noticed another settler, dressed all in white sat in the far
corner of the orchard and either reading or praying. We kept an eye on him.
At around 4pm we saw him move towards the Abu Haikal house so another HRW and I
climbed up into the orchard to follow him. We began to film him since he was
already trespassing on Palestinian land. He began to climb the wall towards
the Abu Haikal house but was not able to get over the fence at the top of the
wall. He started shouting and waving to the settlers who were on top of the
military observation post close by.

After a while he came down and began to move back towards H’s house. The other
HRW had moved out of the orchard back to the Hedad House. I was worried about
the children there so I moved through the orchard quickly to try to get to
Hani’s garden first. Suddenly he started to run and charged straight at me.
This was the first aggressive move he had made so I was taken by surprise. I
ran towards Hani’s house. To get into Hani’s garden I had to climb down a
rough stone wall about a metre high. He reached me as I got there and gave me
a savage push over the wall. I hit my head on a stone and fell into the garden.
He laughed at me. As I lay there I turned the camera on him and he began to
run away. I got up to follow him and shouted to warn the other HRW’s whom he
was running towards. There was a group of about 20 settler tourists standing
next to the Hedad House listening to a tour guide and he ran through them and
down the hill towards Shuhada St.

I could see that my thumb was gashed but not too badly. I could not see the
wound on my head but it did not seem to be too bad. My ankle was not too
painful. I had a bit of a head ache but I decided to keep working as we had
another hour before sunset and there was a large number of tourists hanging
around the houses. At one point there were over 80 settlers gathered around a
tour guide and stopping at various points in the olive groves. One or two of
them attempted to enter Palestinian land but went away when we told them they
could not enter.

At around 4.30 I heard some loud chanting from somewhere near the mosque. I
assumed it was the settlers but when I went to investigate I discovered that a
large group of Palestinian children were demonstrating against the large
settler presence outside their houses. The settlers left and there was no
trouble.

At around 9pm one of the other HRW’s in our apartment offered to clean up my
head wound for me. She discovered that it was quite deep and long and thought
it might need stitches so I went to Al Ahli hospital where I was given 2
stitches. They x-rayed my left ankle and decided it was not broken but
probably sprained. They bandaged it up for me and cleaned and dressed the
wound on my right thumb.

Friday - No problem. I am recovering well. Ankle and thumb are fine. Slight
headache still. Stitches due out on Sunday.

I'm due back in England on Thursday and Sheffield on Saturday 2 Dec. See you
soon !

Blessings and peace,
Dave

"Palestine-Support"

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