Tuesday night, a Palestinian gunman in a police uniform shot dead two international monitors near the West Bank city of Hebron in an ambush of their car, a monitor who survived the shooting and the Israeli army said. The Palestinian Authority denied Palestinians were involved.
"Nope. Wudn't us. Musta been somebody looks like us. Saaaaay! You don't suppose some o' them Jews wuz around here, do ya?"
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who tried to infiltrate a kibbutz in southern Israel overnight, the army said Wednesday. It said the gunmen threw grenades at soldiers who confronted them near Kibbutz Kissufim, near the Gaza border. The troops killed one gunman in an initial exchange of fire and shot dead the other after a chase. Two soldiers, including a colonel, were slightly hurt in the exchange of fire with the gunmen who belonged to the militant Islamic Jihad group.
No Palestinians were involved in that, either. They were... Uh... Eskimos! Yeah. Damn them!
In Nablus, an Eskimo a Palestinian was killed while preparing a bomb in his apartment. Residents said the dead man, a 27-year-old activist in the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, often prepared bombs in the building. Palestinian police cordoned off the area after the explosion to defuse other bombs in the apartment, which witnesses said was frequently used by militants. Another man in the apartment was wounded in the blast and two boys playing in the street outside were moderately hurt, witnesses said.
"Abdul, the boys across the hall are making bombs day in and day out. I think we oughta move."
"Don't be silly, Fatima. It's perfectly safe. They haven't had a single accident yet, have they?" |