The place: Road No. 60 near the settlement of Shilo. The Time: 4/7/08, 15:00
We just ended Peace Now’s tour in the West Bank. We coordinated the rout of the tour with the Israeli police, and it was approved in advance, however the policemen in the field prevented us from entering any settlement and we had to look at them from afar. Settlers started to approach our group and shout at us to spoil the tour, and the line of settlers’ cars following our buses became longer after each stop. The police escorted us and suddenly, near the settlement of Shilo we were stoned. The stone hit the window and smashed it, luckily no one was injured. Some of our activists managed to see the throwers, who were young men, wearing Kipa, probably settlers from the area. We gave the police their detail description, and the policemen said: “ah, we know them”.
Now we only need to wait and see if the police catches and punishes them or, maybe, the police would rather prevent us from have future tours in the West Bank, like what was done in Hebron: the settlers attacked our tours and the police decided not to let us in Hebron again.
