Hamas threw 'medicine grenades' at IDF

[henank]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304770155&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Medicine bottles, transferred to the Gaza Strip as humanitarian aid by Israel, were used by Hamas as grenades against IDF troops during Operation Cast Lead. Pictures of the grenades were obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post.

The medicine bottles were manufactured by the Jerusalem Pharmaceutical Company, which is based in el-Bireh, a town adjacent to Ramallah, and the global pharmaceutical company Shire.

The medicine bottles were filled with explosives, holes were drilled in the caps, and fuses were installed. Once Hamas fighters lit the fuses, they had several seconds to throw the grenades at soldiers. The IDF also found small explosive devices that used medical syringes to hold their fuses.

One bottle turned into a grenade originally contained a drug called Equetro, which is used by people who suffer from episodes associated with bipolar disorder. Another bottle had contained a vitamin supplement called Super-Vit.

[henank]

1. Another example of Hamas' cynical use of humanitarian aid

"This is another example of Hamas's cynical use of humanitarian supplies to attack Israel," a Defense Ministry official said Thursday. "Israel facilitates the transfer of the supplies to the Gaza Strip, and Hamas uses the supplies to create weapons."

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Harmless. Who cares? It is just resistance!

[populistdriven]

3. it is pathetic that they even consider this propaganda worthy

[bemildred]

4. Sounds like a Molotov Cocktail, I guess beer bottles are in short supply. nt

[rockymountaindem]

5. This sounds more sophisticated

Anything with a fuse is more complicated than a Molotov.

[bemildred]

6. Can't be too fancy, if they are recycling medicine bottles to make "grenades".

There are ways to improvise fuses too, but we won't go into that here.

[rockymountaindem]

7. Yeah

But I don't buy whatever it is this article is trying to sell. It's not like we *know* that whoever made those devices took much-needed medicine and flushed it down the toilet just so he'd have a container. To assume that would be making quite the leap of logic.

[bemildred]

8. Well, it's true that the "see we give them stuff and see what they do with it" argument is flimsy.

But then it's not aimed at critical thinkers.

[azurnoir]

9. LOL thought that when I read the story last night

but I suppose they could have used Pepsi bottles

BTW happy friday the thirteenth

[bemildred]

10. Gasp! Don't say it!!!!

Maybe it will slip by if we ignore it.