Posted on 09/23/2005 7:21:02 PM PDT by indcons
At least 15 Palestinians have been killed and scores injured in a blast during a parade by the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip.
A truck carrying gunmen and home-made weapons blew up during the rally in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Israel has denied involvement, while the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction said it held Hamas responsible.
It is the deadliest incident in Gaza since Israel pulled its troops and settlers out earlier this month.
Hours earlier, Palestinians fired rockets into Israel from Gaza after Israel killed three militants in a raid in the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
The rockets did not cause any casualties.
People in pieces
Palestinian witnesses said a crowd, including many children, swarmed round the truck moments before the explosion.
Video filmed during the rally showed a large cloud of white smoke rising into the sky, as hundreds of people ran from the scene of the blast.
The pictures also showed several badly injured bodies on the ground.
An unnamed witness was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying "I was thrown several metres, then I looked behind and I saw people dismembered and lying on the ground dead."
The Associated Press news agency quoted another man, who gave his name as Hussam, as saying he helped pull three men out of the truck, two dead and one alive but with a severed leg.
Hamas accused Israel of causing the blast and vowed revenge.
However Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction said it held Hamas "fully responsible for the victims of the military parade [that was held] among civilians".
Israel has denied any involvement in the blast.
Earlier, Islamic jihad militants fired a volley of rockets into Israel in what they said was retaliation after Israel killed three militants in Tulkarm.
Israel said the militants were killed after opening fire on troops who were trying to arrest them.
The BBC's James Reynolds in Jerusalem says the latest incidents are a sign of high tension in the Gaza Strip even after the Israeli withdrawal.
Proof positive that this never would have happened had the Israelis not forfeited the Gaza Strip. Obviously, the only way to peace is for the Gaza to be returned to Israel.
nice...I'm still laughing...
Too bad it didn't kill a 1,000 of the terrorist pigs.
Nits breed lice is an old adage, that holds more than a grain of truth.
Must... Resist... Urge... To... Laugh...
On that, we can agree.
Never happen. Their hatred for Jews and the nation of Israel is drummed into them from the time they can understand words until the day they die.
Normally I would feel sorry for people who live under the awful conditions the Palestinians have made for themselves. But people who can send their pre-teen sons and daughters out with bomb belts to kill as many Jewish children as possible along with themselves don't deserve any sympathy no matter how bad things get for them.
I'm not happy that Arab children were killed and maimed by those idiotic would-be bombers, far from it. But if kids had to be killed, better them than the children of Jews who have tried everything in the book to make peace with those vicious thugs and have only received more hate and violence for their trouble. And you can bet the farm that's who the bomb was intended to kill and maim, Jewish children.
Let them all go to perdition.
It may not be funny but I have no pity for those who celberate the killing of others.
Maybe the PLO/PA did a hit on Hamas? Hmmmm...? Nah...
I guess that Hamas boy with the dark uniform is the Hamas version of a conscientious objector, since his weapon seems to be a slingshot.
LOL
Domino's Pizza?
Personification of "stuck on stupid"? Regardless, very sad.
Does this mean that those killed don't get 72 virgins?
BTW does anyone now the significance of the number 72?
Best one-liner I've heard in months! Well, ok, stuck on stupid is pretty good, too...you need a wider audience!
(mind if I use it? ;-))
At least when the Soviets paraded their missiles and tanks around, they didn't work.
LOL!! Yeah... time to make dummy vests for parades and stuff....
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