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| Settler shoots, kills Palestinian who allegedly hurled rocks at him |
| 2009-01-14 |
| An Israeli from the West Bank settlement of Emmanuel on Tuesday shot and killed a Palestinian man from a neighboring village. The settler claims that he fired into the air after a group of Palestinians began hurling stones at his car while he was driving down Route 55. "Hey, Mahmoud! I gotta great idea! Let's take some rocks to a gunfight!" Police have located the gunman and detained him for questioning, after hours of searching for him. The settler had contacted police late Tuesday evening and told them that he had fired into the air in order to disperse a group of Palestinians throwing stones at his car. Nevertheless, it took police some time to track him down. The Samaria and Judea Police Department were notified around the same time they received the settler's call of a Palestinian found on the road with critical wounds. According to police, there is evidence to support the version that he had been under attack at the time of the incident. Stones were found around on the site and his car bore traces of rock damage. Police have opened an investigation into the matter. Earlier Tuesday, Israeli security forces shot a Palestinian man as he attempted to grab the gun of a Border Policeman in the Hebron Hills. The Palestinian died of his wounds in hospital shortly thereafter. The incident, which took place at the Tarkumiyah checkpoint in the West Bank, came amid high tensions over Israel's ongoing offensive against Hamas in Gaza. Also Tuesday, Palestinian militants opened fire on an Israel Defense Forces patrol near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba early Tuesday, lightly wounding three soldiers. The wounded troops were evacuated to Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Karem hospital for treatment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Scooter: Hope the rock didn't suffer! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-14 21:19 |
| #13 It can be hard to tell the difference between an incoming rock and an incoming grenade. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-01-14 20:19 |
| #12 If there's one thing I've learnt from RantBurg its "Don't shoot in the Air, aim for centre of body-mass". |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-01-14 19:54 |
| #11 Damn, I was gonna congratulate the settler on his shooting. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-01-14 16:02 |
| #10 Muqata says investigation shows the Israeli fired in the air... and this idiot died when he ran away, tripped, and hit his head on a rock. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-01-14 13:54 |
| #9 Where the rocks lie thick upon the ground, it's tempting to pick up a few and shy them at the nearest target. In French cities there's a long tradition of the peasants throwing prying up cobblestones for the same purpose during revolutions. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-14 13:45 |
| #8 It is. Young muslims are supposed to pelt dhimmis to remind them of their inferjior status since these cannot under pain of death, give them tha pair of slaps they deserve. Adult muslims, are not supposed to perform thee kind of childfren games but they will not restrain the youth either. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-14 13:30 |
| #7 Lol, he probably died of a seizure or something - such an excitable boy, to quote Warren. they are good little rock throwers, I'll give 'em that, they rarely miss Could be one of those cultural thingies? "Youths" in France pelt and stone a lot (police, firefighters,...), and IIUC, this is very common in algeria too, when "shahids" from different city blocks have a fight, they rather pelt each others rather than have a brawl. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-01-14 13:12 |
| #6 A well, actually: The forensic institute at Abu Kabir on Wednesday announced that after conducting an autopsy it did not find any evidence indicating that a Palestinian youth who was allegedly killed by a settler the day before was indeed shot. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-14 12:58 |
| #5 Sounds justifiable to me. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-14 12:14 |
| #4 I'm totally cool with throwing rocks. I'd like to heft a few myself - each about 250M in diameter, made of nickel-iron, and flung at 88,000Km/h at selected targets. None of the targets on my list are in Israel. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-14 11:56 |
| #3 That's cause they get so much practice using them on their females. That honor thingy. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-14 10:11 |
| #2 they are good little rock throwers, I'll give 'em that, they rarely miss |
| Posted by: been there done that 2009-01-14 09:58 |
| #1 Goliath could not be reached for comment. The difference between a rock and a bullet is mass and velocity. Both can kill. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-14 09:02 |