Bloodthirsty Liberal

Scenes From the Palestinian Liberation XIII

I considered giving this one a miss because boys will be boys, and a home-made hand grenade could go off on anyone, right?

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Field Update
28 March 2006

On Tuesday morning, 28 March 2006, 10 students were injured when another student threw a home-made hand grenade at them in a quarrel related to a family dispute in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 09:30, a quarrel erupted inside Hayel ‘Abdul Hamid Secondary School in Beit Hanoun, with relation to a dispute between the families of al-Masri and al-Kafrna in the town. The quarrel escalated and students used stones in it. Later, a student threw a home-made grenade at other students, injuring 10 of them.

Now, where do you suppose a Palestinian youth would get a home-made grenade? I just can’t guess.

Then there’s this story:

Field Update
28 March 2006

On Monday morning, 27 March 2006, unknown armed persons kidnapped and violently beat Nasser Yousef D’ib, 43, director of the agricultural bureau in the central Gaza Strip, and stole his car. In the evening, militants from the Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, kidnapped a member of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Services in Beit Hanoun.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 08:00 on Monday, 27 March 2006, 6 unknown armed persons intercepted D’ib’s car near his house, while he was on his way to the agricultural bureau in al-Zawaida village in the central Gaza Strip. They forced him out of his car and handcuffed and blindfolded him. They then violently beat him and pushed him into their car. Nearly an hour later, they dumped him in an area to the east of Khan Yunis. Official documents and keys from the agriculture bureau had been in D’ib’s car, when it was taken.

At approximately 21:00 on Monday, militants from the Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, kidnapped Ahmed Mahmoud Sha’ban al-Za’anin, 25, a member of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Services from Beit Hanoun, and took him to an unknown destination.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, a civilian car, in which 4 militants were traveling, stopped near al-Za’anin as he was walking in al-Sikka Street in Beit Hanoun. They forced him to get into the car and took him to an unknown destination. At approximately 23:00, the kidnappers handed al-Za’anin to the Military Intelligence Services in Beit Hanoun.

And walked away scot-free?