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Audio Dept. | 30.04.2009 14:29 | Palestine | World


Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday April 30th 2009.

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The military open fire at farmers near Gaza city and troops kidnap civilians in the West Bank; these stories and more coming up stay tuned.

The News Cast

Israeli tanks stationed at the borders opened fire at Palestinian farmers on Thursday midday near Gaza city.

Witnesses said Israeli tanks fired a number of shells at the farmers while working on their lands near the borders, no injuries were reported.

This is the fourth military attack with tank shells in one week that targets them while working in their farms, the farmers added.

Also in the news, a Palestinian teen was injured when an Israeli settler rammed her with his car near the southern West bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning.

Local sources said the settler fled the scene before Israeli military and police arrived at the location.

Hind L'emor, 15, sustained cuts and bruises and was moved Hebron city hospital for treatment, medical sources reported. She comes from the village of Yatta near Hebron, the sources added.

In the mean time, four Palestinian civilians were reported kidnapped during military invasions targeting a number of Palestinian cities in the West Bank on Thursday.

Three civilians were kidnapped when troops invaded Al Biereh town near the central west Bank city of Ramallah. Local sources said that troops searched and ransacked a number of homes before taking the three men to unknown detention facility.

Meanwhile one man was kidnapped when Israeli troops searched and ransacked homes in old Hebron city, southern West Bank.

Conclusion

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30.04.2009 17:51

Ignore or not, but this sort of thing doesn't help.......

"Israeli tanks stationed at the borders opened fire at Palestinian farmers on Thursday midday near Gaza city.
Witnesses said Israeli tanks fired a number of shells at the farmers while working on their lands near the borders, no injuries were reported."

Now nobody sensible is going to believe a report like that. I can believe that the Israelis would fire tank rounds at helpless Palestinian farmers but not that any Israeli tank gunner would be so incompetent for the result to be "no injuries reported". Everybody is pretty well agreed that the Israelis can hit what they aim at and with a tank HE round you only to land close to kill. So this report is obviously fishy.

Why is that bad? Because I think probably the bulk of what was reported (the other stuff) was more or less what happened. So what you don't want to do is allow the reliability of everything to be called into question by including in the list one story that OBVIOUSLY "couldn't be the way reported".

MDN

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01.05.2009 01:20

Go fuck Palestine, could not give a fuck if Israelis have bombed them. Britain has better things to worry about other than a bunch of Islamic fascists.

John

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