Oops: Palestinians Shoot Themselves (Really) in Welcome-Home-Prisoner Revelry
- Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:09pm by
Sharona Schwartz
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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reports 20 Palestinians were injured in Gaza due to celebratory shooting-in-the-air upon the return of convicted terrorists freed by Israel in exchange for Hamas’ release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.
After surveying hospitals last Tuesday, the Center reported that among the injured were six children and three women.
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Gaza hospitals reported admitting patients with bullet and shrapnel wounds, including a 24-year-old with a serious bullet wound to the head, a 17-year-old with a bullet to the face, a seven-year-old with a bullet to the neck, a five-year-old with shrapnel in the thigh, and a two-year-old with shrapnel in the hand.
In its report, the Center called on Hamas authorities to crack down and find those responsible:
PCHR is concerned over casualties resulting from the use of weapons in celebrations, which constitutes a form of misuse of weapons and assaults on the rule of law.
Shooting in the air is frequently seen during celebrations in the Muslim world, including at weddings. And not infrequently, reports of guests being injured by bullets.
Last year, a Turkish groom celebrating his own wedding fired an AK-47 which missed the air and instead killed his father and two aunts and injured eight adults and children.
CNN Reporter Sara Sidner was hit by shell casings filing a report outside Muammar Gadhafi’s compound this summer. Her colleague Michael Holmes reported Libyan rebels were firing celebratory rounds in the air with their AK-47s and anti-aircraft munitions:
But I have to say I’d not seen anti-aircraft “celebratory gunfire” before this conflict. And the volume of fire near Sara and the team was something to behold. Clearly, the rebels must have thought they had no further need for their bullets.
And I noted that several of the rebels, including one operating one of those anti-aircraft guns, might technically have been “shooting into the air,” but only just. The anti-aircraft gun seemed to be pointed at an angle that would have made anyone on the third floor of a building in its line of fire want to don some body armor.
In August, The Blaze released an article detailing the science behind dangerous celebratory gunfire, and noted that there have been fatalities in the U.S. tied to the practice, including a 4-year-old Atlanta boy in 2010.
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Comments (156)
Constructionist
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:50pmHow bad of a shot does one have to be to ‘miss the air’ and instead shoot one’s whole family? On a brighter note, this will make for SUCH a funny story years down the road.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 2:17pmI say release more prisoners.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 2:21pmdident your mother tell you CAREFUL WITH THAT AX, EUGINE… or was it AK, everything is so confusing
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 2:21pmexactly… LOL
i love guns, and love the 2nd amendment, but i also don’t condone someone shooting off their guns into the air for no reason… although it is rare… people have been hit by “falling bullets” from “air shots” …
i am big on the “Be sure of your target” when you are a gun owner. it is your top responsibility.
after that is, never draw your gun unless you Plan on pulling the trigger.
* you can’t be sure of your target when you point your gun randomly in the air… that‘s all i’m saying :P
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 2:22pmdident the libyan govt say the same thing… all the celebratory gun fire was hurting people
Report Post »antiencenom
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 2:30pmWe mustn’t forget these terrorist are multipling rapidly,just like rabbits and mice…..
Report Post »you know like rodents !!
IronSights
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:33pmWhat! You mean to tell me that when that bullet is fired up in the air, it’s eventually going to come back down! That’s just crazy talk.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:40pmwhat goes up, must come down, even if they miss up.
Report Post »thop1960
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:45pm“akmed, remember when I shot you in the face while celebrating? That was hilarious, oh sorry, he’s still in a coma…too soon?”
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:49pmInsha’Allah
Report Post »sandlakebob
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:52pmStupid,,, stupid rag- heads………..and FUNNY !!!
Report Post »Geems3
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:55pmWe should give them [celebratory] M18-A1 Claymores.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 6:10pmI guess they missed out on the gravity lesson that day in science class
Report Post »dasbunker
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:13pmThey must have taken marksmanship training from the French.
Can I donate bullets.
Report Post »DSN397
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:15pmCONSTRUCTIONIST I think it’s already a funny story, and think the united nations should call for more Palestinian weddings.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:45amDon’t these ignorant, barbaric, seventh century throw-backs know about GRAVITY? All those bullets fired up into the air have to come down somewhere!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:37amStupid seems to be a unifying theme for these so called “rebels.”
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:45pm“Stupid” “IS” a hallmark of the Palestinian movement (at the delivery threshold). Frankly, it‘s a hallmark of the entire middle eastern facade surrounding their ’movement‘ into the mainstream as a political ’power.’
Luckily, they aren’t smart enough to catch on, either. Oh well, attrition takes it’s toll.
Report Post »CulpepperJosh1638
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:50pmIm sorry I feel bad these people were hurt, but then again! How STUPID are you to stand near a man shooting in the sky?
Report Post »republapig
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 2:05pmAbout this stupid
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUtNWD7_bs
UDOUDI
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:42pmWeapons of mass celebration. Too bad it wasn’t mortars and rockets.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:59pmOK do we need to spell out why a group that has been around since 70 BC is still living like it’s 70 BC. I‘d say it’s obvious, they are missing a chromosome or two.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:04pmNational Lampoon said it best 40 years ago…, “The paranoid remnants of a decayed civilization.”
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:38pmClose only counts in horseshoes and hand granades..lol I want to say more but I can’t stop laughing…ba hee ha ha ha
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:41pmSome problems just naturally correct themselves. I‘m just say’n…..
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:36pmAgreed! Just like Liberals and their love of abortion.
Report Post »max00man
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:37pmThis may sound morbid but I had to literally wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes! If the Israeli’s released one prisoner per day x the number of rounds fired with an average of 3.35 Palestinians that fire aimlessly into the crowd I‘m pretty sure there wouldn’t be a Palestinian rebellion issue!
Just to think – Arabs think they will conquer Capitalism. SURE! All we have to do is provide them weapons. They’ll take care of each other! Ha ha ha!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:40pmPRICELESS!
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Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:40pmSir Issac Newton, the mood killer at every middle eastern party.
Report Post »Cigar
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:36pm“Last year, a Turkish groom celebrating his own wedding fired an AK-47 which missed the air and instead killed his father and two aunts and injured eight adults and children.”
BAAWAAHAHAHA !!! What an idiot ….
Report Post »CONSERVATIVETIGER
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:53pmMy question: How in the HELL was this possible – “missed the air”????
Report Post »myptofvu
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:36pmI think we’ve found and answer to the radical Muslim problem. All we have to do is keep giving them things to celebrate about and the problem will take care of itself!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:40pmBRILLIANT!
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Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:32pmToo bad they werent shooting granades straight up in the air. Just sayin.
Report Post »Bob
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:32pmThese folks make the Neanderthals look brilliant. Watch natural selection/evolution at work.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:26pmSix children and three women were among the injured., well then I guess that’s alright. For a minute there I thought it might have been the gun shooting, women hating, child raping men that got caught in the line of fire.
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:14pmHave you taken a good look at Palestinian children’s TV shows lately? I feel badly because I can’t seem to summon up any concern about them taking out their own next-generation terrorists. I’ll keep trying though. UUUNNNGGGHHH!!! Nope, not yet…….
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:25pmIs everyone over there stupid and lazy? Maybe we should export our illegals over there. Solves two problems at once. Gets the trespassers off our soil and improve the gene pool in the middle east.
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:23pmalways wondered why they consider it a good idea to shoot up in the air…dangerous AND a waste of perfectly good ammo
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:31pmI say to anyone who will listen…
We need to have missles that home in on the celebratory sounds of AK-47 gunfire and that unique La-la-la-la-la-la sounds those funny Islamists make with their mouths. Then have Obama report that Osama Bin Laden is not dead and then unleash the missles to go get em as these fanatics boil into the streets to celebrate.
Heck we would clear up half the Islamist threat in one hour.
Report Post »gfmucci
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:22pmI hate to say this, but Ann Barnhardt may be right about the consequences of their inbreeding.
Report Post »Jumper
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:41pmI can‘t think of many things she’s not right about. I say let them do it. The more of themselves they kill, the less of them we will have to.
Report Post »BannedByHuffpo
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:03pmOr breeding with goats
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:21pmOoh! – the Liberal Left must be so proud of themselves – truly a chosen people they can get behind. Just give it a few months and the liberal Left Media will find something Israel is doing to report on – until now their is nothing to report.
Report Post »Islamislame
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:20pmOh, I‘m sure they’ll really crack down on this practice…Islamists love death…even among their own.
Report Post »lovesjesus
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:20pmPerhaps we should remind these good people that “Gravity is not just a suggestion, it’s the law!”
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:17pm.
LMAO,LMAO,LMAO…………………..
Somebody call 911, I‘ve fall’in and I can’t get up. I think I wet myself LMAO……………
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:17pmStuck on stupid…..
Report Post »highstrung
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:10pmThe good news is: There apparently IS a way to fix STUPID!!! X-0
Report Post »Muddbog
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:17pmLOL Irony! Just a thought here but maybe we should give them a reason to celebrate more often and save us the hassle of deploying troops…
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:16pmProof of Neuton’s Law of Gravity “What goes up must come down” or Forrest Gump’s “Stupid is as stupid does”.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:24pmWhat do we expect of savages?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:15pmI have often wondered if the CIA or Mossad could secretly supply the Palestinians with rockets that explode when launched. It would make those monkeys think twice before firing one. It’s worth a try.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:19pmNice idea.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:32pmAfter the first two even these morons would figure it out.
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:39pmI say let them have nukes!! LOL
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:15pmCan we join the celebration and shoot them as well : )
Report Post »PJL
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:30pmLol
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:14pmWhat, no video?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:14pmCan’t fix …..
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:13pmLet them celebrate every day!
Report Post »det45
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 4:14pmCan we say STUCK on STUPID! These people are the clear definition of stupidity! This is why they must be killed and defeated. That’s the only way they will get the message. You can’t reason with inbreeded stupidity. PROTECT ISRAEL FROM THESE ANIMALS NO MATTER WHAT!
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