| Subject: Israel is pissing me off bigtime |
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Alan
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Date Posted: 20:58:09 06/22/02 Sat
You know it's really bad when even FOX News, the big cheerleader for the "war on terrorism," is prominently featuring this story on the front page of its website:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55880,00.html
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NABLUS, West Bank — Four Palestinians — three of them children — were killed Friday when Israeli tanks mistakenly opened fire on a group of curfew violators in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian residents said they believed Israeli forces had lifted the 3-day curfew before the shooting. Witnesses said the market area was full of shoppers replenishing supplies when the Israelis fired tank shells and machine guns into the crowds.
The Israeli army said the curfew had not been lifted. Nevertheless, the army spokesman's office said an initial inquiry "indicates that the force erred in its action," and that an investigation was continuing.
Also Friday, Israelis returning from funerals near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar killed a Palestinian during a rampage in Hawara village, shooting randomly in the streets and burning cars and a home, Palestinian villagers and a hospital official said.
Israeli police said they knew of a wounded Palestinian in the area and were checking the reports of a settler rampage. Itamar settlers could not immediately be reached for comment.
Several hours earlier, two Palestinian gunmen had seized a house in the settlement, killing a woman and her three sons before soldiers stormed the house and killed one attacker.
In the Jenin shooting, Palestinian security and hospital officials said Israelis fired tank shells and machine-guns at residents in two Jenin streets in the town's market area and a nearby neighborhood, killing four people and wounding 24, including many children.
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Also, a 10-year-old boy was killed when Israeli troops opened fire at a group of Palestinian children and an AP reporter and photographer on a Gaza road as soldiers tore down a Palestinian police post.
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Whoops.
Alan
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