re: Israelis shoot Palestinians, ignoring ceasefire.
Six Israelis have been killed in violence since the "cease fire," but as we all know, it isn't breaking the truce when Palestinians do it.
From the Jerusalem Post:
Ali Abu Zeid, a 22-year-old Rafah resident, claimed the group of boys were playing soccer in an open area when the ball was kicked toward the border fence. "The kids ran after it, and that's when we heard gunfire," he said. Palestinian hospital officials said two of the dead youths were 14 and 15 years old.
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An Israeli commander at the scene said the youths were spotted crawling on their stomachs deep inside a closed military zone. He said three of the youths got to their feet and began running toward the border. The teenagers were about 250 meters (yards) into the closed area when they were shot on a military patrol road near the border, he said.
"These kids were not playing soccer," said the commander, whose name was withheld under military regulations. "They knew what they were doing. You don't get there by accident."
Okay, so now we have two sides to this story. I guess we'll have to wait and see. If they were actually shot 250 meters inside a closed military zone, it's going to be tough to explain how they got there by chasing an errant soccer ball.
