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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas Gunmen Fire at Protesters
2006-12-13
Four Palestinians were wounded yesterday when Hamas gunmen opened fire on demonstrators protesting the killing of the sons of an intelligence officer in a drive-by shooting on Monday.

The killing of the three boys, whose car was riddled with bullets as they rode to school in Gaza City, sparked widespread rage, grief and soul-searching in the Palestinian areas. Demonstrations erupted throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, children stayed home from school and Palestinian security forces allied to Fatah party forced stores to close.

Witnesses said that during a protest in Khan Younis, some schoolchildren who had joined the demonstration, threw stones at Hamas militiamen. That provoked them to open fire, injuring four people including two Palestine Authority security officials.

Hamas and Fatah officials later traded accusations. On its website, Hamas said armed men of Fatah and Palestinian Authority had raided official and public buildings. President Mahmoud Abbas earlier ordered his security forces to deploy across Gaza after the killing of the three boys and their driver.
Posted by:Fred

#10  I'm waitin' for Jimmah to make a statement.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-12-13 18:01  

#9  Good one, Mike. While Palestinian atrocities are shrugged off like so much wet clothing, an Israeli hiccough raises howls of international protest. The usual swallowing camels whole and choking on gnats bullshit.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-13 13:22  

#8  And what do you think Arabs were doing for the last 3000 years, Liberalhawk? (You think Mohamed invented first cousin marriages?)
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-12-13 10:33  

#7  3000 years of inbreeding? given how many of them are immigrants from across the arab world, I should say not. At least not the urban population.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2006-12-13 09:28  

#6  Given how much opprobrium the IDF gets for firing tear gas and beanbags, I expect Hamas will be the object of a storm of condemnation from the international human rights community.

[crickets]

I said: I expect Hamas will be the object of a storm of condemnation from the international human rights community.

[crickets]

Just you wait, there'll be a storm of condemnation blowing up any second now.

[crickets]
Posted by: Mike   2006-12-13 07:26  

#5  soul-searching in the Palestinian areas
Explains the rush order for 12 scanning electron microscopes.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-12-13 06:45  

#4  Lets hope this will turn out to be a localized 'mutually assured destruction' and then the 'oppressed' Palestinian people will wise up from 3000 years of inbreeding and an eternity of brainwashing , develope a peaceful agenda and get on with building a life for themselves ..

Ohh but wait a minute , this just aint gonna happen . Noone there has the balls or energy to stand up to the crap these Islamic leaders put them through

*looks around for the blue elephant jumping over the month of sundays*
Posted by: MacNails   2006-12-13 06:26  

#3  Funny how Hamas' policy of helping the people evaporates if it infringes the least bit upon their Jew-killing. First starvation, then Beit Hanoun and now lethal crowd control; Can these morons possibly endear themselves any further to the Palestinians? What's it going to take for the Palestinian people to understand that they are merely meat puppets in a much larger game that gives not one gold-plated turd about them?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-13 05:11  

#2  It ain't serious until they start suicide booming each other.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-12-13 00:19  

#1  Pathetic, but predictable.
Posted by: RWV   2006-12-13 00:16  

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