Israeli military patrols storm Tulkarem 'to buy a hookah'

[ProgressiveMuslim]

Date: 05 / 04 / 2009 Time: 12:57



Tulkarem – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers in stormed the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem in three vehicles on Sunday, firing gunshots and tear gas before they besieged a café and forced everybody inside to lie on the ground.

The soldiers' mission, according to witnesses, was to buy a hookah from the café.

Palestinian youth who were inside Za’im Café had assumed the mission was, as usual, aimed at detaining someone. However, they were surprised when the soldiers examined hookahs and one asked for the owner.

Still lying on the floor, the own Thaer Al-Jaroun, answered. The soldier asked him how much he should pay for the hookah, then he took the hookah he selected and paid 230 Israeli shekels as the owner of the café requested.

After the soldiers left, youth pelted them with stones and confrontations erupted between both sides near the Palestine Khudouri College. Several students suffered tear gas inhalation on their way to the campus

http://maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=36894

[GoesTo11]

1. How about just one general link to maannews.net

Instead of posting every story separately. Those who want links to every story may as well just go to the source.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. I posted 4 articles... two about settlers and land theft; one about IDF misconduct,

and one about a kid being gravely injured.

Not sure why you have a problem with that.

[Violet_Crumble]

4. I think you should read the forum rules...

Every new thread needs to be accompanied by a direct link to the article. If you have a problem with that you can take it up with the mods, but I'm not sure why anyone would have a problem...

[ProgressiveMuslim]

3. Trained fighting force or gang of thugs? Hard to tell in this case.

[azurnoir]

5. Were they planning on using it

or did they just think it would make a nice decorative piece, this gets the WTF award of the day