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| UN project manager killed in clash in Jenin refugee camp |
| 2002-11-22 |
| A senior UN official from Britain was shot and killed Friday during an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, doctors and witnesses said. The victim was identified as Ian Hook, 50, who headed a UN project to rebuild homes in the battle-scarred camp. An 11-year-old Palestinian boy was also killed and an Irish national wounded in different incidents in the camp. They're back to shooting it out, with lots of innocent bystanders getting knocked off... Hook and several other U.N. officials were in a small U.N. compound, consisting of several mobile homes, when the fighting erupted, said Sami Mshasha, a U.N. spokesman. At the time, Israeli troops had surrounded a nearby hideout of a wanted Islamic Jihad leader, Abdullah Wahsh, demanding that he surrender. Abdullah, of course, would do no such thing and called for reinforcements... Palestinian So they got a full-scale riot going. Convenient, being able to call one up whenever needed... The U.N. officials in the Jenin camp were on the phone with the Israeli military, trying to arrange the safe evacuation of the U.N. staff, when Hook was killed, Mshasha said. "Several bullets hit the trailer and hit him," Mshasha said. "We managed to send an ambulance to transfer him to the hospital, but he was dead when he reached the hospital." Foreigners make the best kind of human shields, don't they? The Jenin Hospital director, Mohammed Abu Ghali, said the bullets retrieved from the victim's abdomen were of the kind generally used by Israeli troops. No doubt. No doubt. That would indicate that it was Paleostinians who were swarming around the trailer, shooting at the Israelis and drawing fire... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 Not a tear for UNASSH*LE. Probably tipping off the paleo-splodeydopes. Maybe IDF could accidentally target a few more UN types. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-22 13:46:08 |
| #4 "In the Jenin refugee camp, IDF troops arrested one of the most wanted Islamic Jihad terrorists, Abdullah Waqf, 19. The terrorist was arrested by IDF Special Forces, who surrounded his home in the Jenin camp and shot at his home until he surrendered." Guess it got too hot for him. |
| Posted by: Steve 2002-11-22 13:26:58 |
| #3 Indicates nothing.This guy might not even be able to tell one bullet from another,but he knows that,should he say otherwise,he'd be visited later by PA's thugs... |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-11-22 11:04:39 |
| #2 Irish national? IRA member? If that person was NGO, wouldn't the story have said so? W could do Tony a big favor and tell the IRA no sanctuary and reverse the policy the panty-snapper put in place. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-22 11:02:21 |
| #1 Sure, the Paleo-thugs were using the UN trailers for cover but, that won't make any difference to the UN. They'll still blame it on 'da jews. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2002-11-22 10:05:36 |