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| Palestinian youth shot dead in Bethlehem |
| 2003-01-11 |
| Middle East Online A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire Friday in the Aida refugee camp of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, as he was throwing stones at soldiers, Palestinian medical sources said. Tareq Abu Jaber was hit in the abdomen, the sources said, adding that two other youngsters had been lightly wounded in the same incident. My sympathy meter's still busted. If he'd been in school, learning something, then he wouldn't have been out playing at jihad, where he could stop a bullet. Those nails are very tough, ain't they? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 The problem with the Palestinian economy is that these young thugs used to be rented out as mercenary slingers two millenia ago. Now they are stupid enough to do the rock throwing for free, with IDF infantry as targets no less. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2003-01-11 15:36:05 |
| #2 Something that the news media never mention when discussing "stone-throwers" is that these kids are throwing bricks. Scroll down through this article (sorry, it was a really long fisking of Reuters)for a photo of the kids throwing those "rocks." |
| Posted by: Meryl Yourish 2003-01-11 15:25:36 |
| #1 In the article, it's amusing how it refers to Palestinian suicide attacks as "martyrdom bombings". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rara 2003-01-11 15:18:41 |