Israeli skunk bomb clears demonstrators

Jerusalem Post:

The IDF stepped up efforts to quell violent anti-security fence demonstrations in the West Bank over the weekend using, for the first time in six months, the "skunk bomb."

The "skunk bomb" is a foul-smelling liquid which is sprayed on the protesters. "The smell is so strong that people flee immediately," explained an IDF source, noting that the demonstration on Friday was dispersed within minutes of firing the bomb into the crowd.

On Friday, IDF and Border Police forces used the spray against close to 100 Palestinian, Israeli and foreign demonstrators near the West Bank village of Bil'in. The demonstrators were protesting against the construction of the security barrier nearby. The "skunk bomb" was last used in January.

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"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 made as part of a new effort by the IDF to minimize friction between the security forces and the demonstrators to as low a level as possible.

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IDF sources said that most of the demonstrators were surprisingly foreigners and Israelis, not Palestinians. In April a Bil'in protester, Bassem Abu Rahmeh, was killed after he was hit in the chest by a gas canister.


It appears the useful idiots of the Palestinian "resistance" have learned the smell of failure. I bet the Iranians wish they had thought of the skunk bomb.

Comments

  1. Joe Kelsall2:01 PM

    They could market it as 'Eau de Mea Sharim'.

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