British lawmakers say were shot at in Gaza, no injuries

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/440843.html

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"A group of British parliamentarians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday claimed they were shot at by Israel Defense Forces soldiers as they visited a site near which a British peace activist had been shot dead."

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"Baroness Northover, the Liberal Democrat party's House of Lords spokeswoman on international development issues, said the group was traveling under United Nations supervision near the Rafah refugee camp Friday when machine gun fire from an IDF observation post passed closely above their heads. A large number of children were nearby, she added.

The group then moved closer to where the marked UN vehicles were parked and another shot hit a building next to them, knocking pieces of masonry to the ground near Northover, she said in a statement."

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"We arrived more or less to the area where British peace campaigner Tom Hurndall was shot dead and later died of his wounds. Around us what a group of children, and at a certain stage we heard shots. UN staff with us located the source of firing to an observation point at the edge of the open field, and following the shooting we quickly returned to our cars," Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament told Haaretz Saturday."

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They should have co-ordinated their visit with the IDF. As it was, they went in without anyone knowing they were there.

unless proved otherwise. I'm shocked! Besides what's to stop the idf from giving the ptemkin villiage tour, where they only show the settlements and not the refugee camps like they do our congressmen?

I have no more details as to why they were fired at. There is no verification that the IDF shot at them.

Apparently those that were shot at were the backbone of Israel's fan club in the British gov't. A "Labour Friends of Israel" member, a Tory, and I think a couple others.. They were fired on with many children nearby. These are "friends of Israel" being threatened--who won't your army shoot?