West Bank Assailants Beat U.S. Activists

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By NASSER SHIYOUKHI
Associated Press Writer

September 30, 2004, 12:58 PM EDT

HEBRON, West Bank -- Two American volunteers in a group helping Palestinians were beaten with baseball bats and chains by five men, including one who spoke English with an Israeli accent, one of the victims said Thursday.

The Americans, Chris Brown, 40, from San Francisco, and Kim Lamberty, 44, from Washington, were escorting Palestinian children to their school in a West Bank village Wednesday when they were attacked, Brown said.

The two are members of the Christian Peacemakers Team, a group that has been active in and around the West Bank city of Hebron for several years.

Brown remained hospitalized in Israel on Thursday with a punctured lung. Lamberty was released after receiving treatment for a broken arm and swollen knee.

The identity of the assailants was not known, but Bourke Kennedy, another member of the group, said the volunteers have been harassed in the past by Jewish settlers on the same road, which runs near the Maon settlement.

"We've been spat at, hit, and almost run down on occasion," Kennedy said.

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1. It's very nice when you can go to West Bank/Gaza and be safe, except

from settlers and soldiers. Sheesh!

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2. Well, not completely safe

Attack kills two Israeli children

SDEROT, Israel—A Palestinian rocket slammed into a street in this southern Israeli town yesterday, killing two preschool children who were playing in a yard as Israelis ushered in the fall harvest festival of Sukkot.