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"The smell is so strong that people flee immediately," explained an IDF source, noting that the demonstration was dispersed within minutes of firing the bomb into the crowd.
On Friday, IDF and Border Police forces used the spray against nearly 100 Palestinian, Israeli and foreign demonstrators near the village of Bil'in, east of Modi'in Illit. They were protesting against the construction of the security barrier nearby. The skunk bomb was last used in January.
Some 300 people participated in another demonstration at Na'alin on Friday, causing serious damage to the barrier and throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at security personnel.
A top officer in the Central Command said on Friday that Col. Aviv Reshef, commander of the Binyamin Brigade, recently met with Palestinian leaders from Bil'in and Na'alin and urged them to restrain the rioters.
"We do not have a problem with them demonstrating peacefully against the fence, but we will not allow the demonstrators to damage or vandalize it," the officer said, adding that the decision to use the skunk bomb was taken as part of a new effort by the IDF to minimize friction between the security forces and the demonstrators as much as possible.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 100 soldiers and border policemen have been wounded, some of them seriously, during the anti-fence demonstrations.
IDF sources said most of the demonstrators were foreigners and Israelis, not Palestinians. On April 17, a protester from Bil'in, Bassam Ibrahim Abu Rahma, died after he was hit in the chest by a tear gas canister.
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Jul 11, 2009 at 10:56 PM Anonymous Says:
will they use it in meah shearim as well?
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Jul 11, 2009 at 10:54 PM Anonymous Says:
The police should use this bomb against the demonstrators at the parking lot to disperse them and avoid any serious injuries. These types of non-lethal weapons will save lives of both the police and chareidim and could avoid the need for the police to drag the bochurim off to jail each shabbos for blocking the streets and breaking the law.
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Jul 11, 2009 at 11:16 PM Anonymous Says:
It there any halacha that says it is assur for the plice to use these weapons against demonstrators on shabbos in lieu of conentional wepaons. Haveing the chraieidim smell like this would probaby make them forget abou their fixation on chillul shabbos.
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Jul 11, 2009 at 11:39 PM Milhouse Says:
“ It there any halacha that says it is assur for the plice to use these weapons against demonstrators on shabbos in lieu of conentional wepaons. Haveing the chraieidim smell like this would probaby make them forget abou their fixation on chillul shabbos. ”
"Fixation"? By you chilul shabbos is something unimportant, and those who care about it display "an obsessive or unhealthy preoccupation or attachment"?
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Jul 11, 2009 at 11:36 PM Milhouse Says:
There can be no comparison between these "demonstrations" and those in meah she'arim. These people are throwing rocks and firebombs with the intent of injuring or killing the soldiers. And it's not in self-defense either. Nor is it just a handful of wild boys among thousands of peaceful demonstrators. And of course the "cause" they're demonstrating for -- essentially for the right of Arabs to blow up Jews -- is not at all comparable to shabbos.
A firebomb is a deadly weapon, and a soldier seeing someone at one of these events with one in his hands ought to be authorised to shoot him.
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Jul 12, 2009 at 12:04 AM Benny and Batsheva Shoham Says:
"A firebomb is a deadly weapon".
So is a rock.
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Jul 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM Anonymous Says:
there really dummy canisters with no smell at all its just the palestinians start getting nervous when they see the canisters producing the ............
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Jul 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM Anonymous Says:
there really dummy canisters with no smell at all its just the palestinians start getting nervous when they see the canisters producing the ............
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Jul 12, 2009 at 12:22 AM Anonymous Says:
“ "Fixation"? By you chilul shabbos is something unimportant, and those who care about it display "an obsessive or unhealthy preoccupation or attachment"? ”
The first time in a while you are right
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Jul 12, 2009 at 12:21 AM Anonymous Says:
sunk bomb is way of getting people to go away with out having someone hurt. all they need is a media pic to b taken of a arab person all bloodey and only printing half a story. sunk bomb allows the army to get the demenstors to leave without anyone getting hurt.
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Jul 12, 2009 at 01:18 AM Anonymous Says:
“ will they use it in meah shearim as well? ”
rumor has it that they plan to .
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Jul 12, 2009 at 07:50 AM Anonymous Says:
“ It there any halacha that says it is assur for the plice to use these weapons against demonstrators on shabbos in lieu of conentional wepaons. Haveing the chraieidim smell like this would probaby make them forget abou their fixation on chillul shabbos. ”
Reply to no3
Its the same halacho that says if you eat pork you can't have it with milk
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Jul 12, 2009 at 09:16 AM Anonymous Says:
This is something!
Equating the arabs to the Mesires nefeshdig bocurim and yungeleit who protest against Chilul Shabos in the holy city of yerusalayim.
Even worse, the posters equating the two are suposedly frum jews? What a disgrace.
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Jul 12, 2009 at 02:43 PM observer Says:
before you know it the protesters will don masks.