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Middle East
Paleos vow Dire Revenge™
2003-10-12
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and razed houses on the second day of a raid on a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Saturday, drawing vows of revenge™ from masked Palestinian militants leading a funeral march.
"Who was that masked man?"
"I dunno, but he left me this vow of Dire Revenge™!"
A militant group urged Palestinians to unite and fight the Israeli troops, who have killed eight Palestinians since launching their open-ended raid on the Rafah camp to search for arms-smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border. In New York, the United Nations issued a statement saying: "The secretary general deplores the killing of Palestinian civilians during the Israeli incursion into Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Not for the first time, the secretary general reminds Israel that the disproportionate use of force in densely populated areas is not compatible with international humanitarian law."
"So just let them keep doing what they've been doing..."
The raid, the largest in months into Rafah, a known militant stronghold, followed a suicide bombing in Israel’s port city of Haifa that killed 20 people last week.
I forget. What was it Kofi had to say about that?
In Rafah, medics said a 19-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli troops. The army said the man was carrying a rifle and an explosive charge.
Sounds like a good way to get yourself dead...
He was the eighth Palestinian killed in Rafah since the raid began on Thursday. At least 200 masked militants led a funeral march for three of the dead, having gun sex shooting in the air and shouting "revenge, revenge is near." The militant Islamic Jihad group, which claimed responsibility for the Haifa bombing, urged Palestinians to unite and fight. "Jihad calls on our people and on Palestinian national and Islamic factions to declare a general deployment and be ready to face the Israeli incursion in Rafah," the group said in a leaflet.
"Y'all get out there and get yourselves killed!"
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  "The secretary general deplores the killing of Palestinian civilians ... disproportionate use of force in densely populated areas is not compatible with international humanitarian law."

And deliberate bombing of civilians (both Arab and Isreali) is compatable? What is Kofi smoking these days?

In Rafah, medics said a 19-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli troops. The army said the man was carrying a rifle and an explosive charge.

Someone tell the UN that this is not the definition of a civilian.
Might be hard ... the UN still has not learned the concept of Cause and Effect....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2003-10-12 11:33:12 AM  

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