This was their funniest hour: Palestinian teens stage bogus IDF raid

An absurdity out of "That 70s show." or "Seinfeld."

 

Only the most humorless fanatics will not appreciate this. If the Israeli Palestinian conflict lasts for a  thousand years, men  may  still say, "This was their funniest hour."

 

PA: Palestinian teens disguised as Israelis staged 'army raid'
Published yesterday (updated) 26/07/2009 20:45

Bethlehem – Ma'an – It appeared to be a routine army raid when Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank village of Marah Rabah, ordering a curfew and
bursting into private homes late on Friday night.

Residents quickly discovered, however, that the "soldiers" were in fact five teenage Palestinian boys disguised in Israeli army uniforms.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces were then summoned to the village on the outskirts of Bethlehem to arrest the boys.

The Bethlehem Police Department said in a statement that the boys are between 15 and 17 years old and are residents of various unspecified Bethlehem-area towns.

Witnesses in the village said the boys tried to impose a curfew on the Thaher Ath-Thur neighborhood. The teens also broke into at least one house and "searched" it, they said.

Local residents managed to surround the troublemakers and block their escape before the police arrived.

PA intelligence services have opened an investigation into the incident.