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Paleos boom themselves; fortunately no baby ducks harmed |
2004-05-19 |
The headline from JPost is completely different, but if you read through the reports. It is Paleos claim this happened and Israelis say if was it us then it was a mistake. Highly likely its self-inflincted by the RoP. Israeli helicopters and tanks shot into a crowd of demonstrators near Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, killing at least 22 people, including two children, and wounding dozens of others, Palestinian medical workers said. The death of the demonstrators brings the toll of Palestinians killed since the launching of Operation Rainbow on Tuesday to 48. Witnesses and Palestinian security sources said tanks opened fire with shells and machineguns and a helicopter fired four missiles. Wounded were evacuated by ambulance, private cars and donkey carts to the nearby hospital. According to IDF officials, airforce footage of the attack shows that one missile was fired into an open area not far from thousands of Palestinian demonstrators headed towards Tel Sultan. Officials noted that in the same area is a combat zone where bombs and gunfire Officials said that in addition a tank fired one shell towards an empty building to serve as a deterrent. Update version, from the link... According to IDF officers, among the crowd of men, women, and children, a number of armed Palestinians were spotted. As they approached the Girit outpost, a helicopter fired one missile into an open area not far from the demonstrators as a warning for them to turn back. According to footage taken from the helicopter and drones, the missile exploded far from the demonstrators in an open area and no one was hit. |
Posted by:Phil B |
#7 ** YAWN ** |
Posted by: A Jackson 2004-05-19 11:23:52 PM |
#6 "We're not worried, the Isralei Army Soldiers are good shots." |
Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-19 8:14:17 PM |
#5 I hate to see any children get hurt, but the Paleos have made the decision to use their children as instruments of war. They use them as shields; they use them as suicide bomb vehicles; they dress them up as warriors and suicide bombers; they march them about in the midst of terrorists during demonstrations. The casualties are just a result of their decision to cross over the line. The sooner Israel pulls out of Gaza and fences the place off the better off everyone will be. The Paleos need the atmosphere to have to look inward. Then they can boom themselves to oblivion, or they can put down the shovel and start the long climb out the |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-05-19 3:14:45 PM |
#4 According to the Idiot Box when the shell was fired into the "empty building" a series of seconday explosions occured resulting in all the casualties. It's amazing how one tank shell can explode numerous times when fired into an "empty" building. I think it probably set off all the Paleos firecrackers they were saving for the next Ramadan. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-05-19 2:57:43 PM |
#3 I think we're gonna have to make Oge_Retla conductor of the Rantburg town band/symphony. |
Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-19 1:54:19 PM |
#2 Wounded were evacuated by . . . donkey carts to the nearby hospital. Cue : "On The Trail" from "Grand Canyon Suite", by Ferde Grofe. |
Posted by: Oge_Retla_2004 2004-05-19 12:38:57 PM |
#1 Children were killed too? This reeks of "human shield" casualties. |
Posted by: Charles 2004-05-19 12:23:25 PM |