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2007-12-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-14 09:51|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Fatah

#1 Looks like they updated it. With the humorous details...

Hamas security officials said a participant in the funeral lobbed a pipe bomb at the edges of the procession, but the bomb bounced back into the procession, causing the mayhem.

Witnesses said one of the marchers was wearing a bomb around his waist, as he chanted atop one of the cars. He died in the explosion.

Gunfire and the setting off of fireworks are common forms of commemoration at Gaza funerals.

For our entertainment pleasure, let's hope that tradition never ends...

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-14 12:22|| 2007-12-14 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 But wait! There's more...

From Ma'an:

Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry said that four people were killed and more than 30 were injured during the funeral as a result of a grenade being hurled. He described five of the injured as being in a serious condition.

He named the dead as twenty-year-old Mu'taz Masar'a and twenty-three-year-old Yousif Abu Ryala and eighteen-year-old Zuhair Awad, in addition to Ashraf Al-Ashqar, who fell from the top of a building while the funeral procession marched past.

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-14 12:29|| 2007-12-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

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