Likely Terrorist’s Family Donates His Organs to Israelis
Ma’an reports:
The family of an 18-year-old Palestinian civilian, who died after being shot by Israeli security guards a few weeks ago, have donated his organs to save the lives of six Israelis.
Patient “A” was clinically dead when he was transferred to the intensive care unit in Shiba medical center in Tel Hashomeir. But doctors were unable to resuscitate him.
The Hebrew daily newspaper Ma’ariv reported that his family decided to donate his organs to those who needed them, regardless of their race, religion or identity.
The National Center for Organ Transplants promised to keep information concerning his identity confidential for the safety of his family who live in the Palestinian Authority area. The families of the recipients were told about the identity of the donor but have also agreed to keep the information confidential, according to the newspaper.
On Wednesday evening the Patient “A”‘s father had an emotional meeting with the patient who received his son’s heart.
Patient “A”‘s father described his son as “a great person who was loved by everyone. He was big-hearted and I didn’t hesitate to donate his organs to needy patients, even though he was killed by Israeli security guards.”
“At first it was hard for me, but God inspired me to take the right decision to help the patients by donating my son’s organs. I’m happy with this decision and I don’t differentiate between Jews and Arabs. All I care about is saving people’s lives. That’s why I didn’t ask about the patients’ identities,” he added.
My best guess is that this is how the man was killed (from PCHR’s weekly reports of Palestinian Arabs killed and arrested by Israel):
on 9 May, a Palestinian civilian was shot dead and another was arrested by the guards of “Ofra” settlement, northeast of Ramallah. IOF claimed that the victim attempted to get close to the settlement in order to fire at it from a hunting rifle.
This is the only West Bank death I could find that remotely fits the description in the Ma’an/Maariv article, so it appears that “Patient A” was a terrorist who tried to kill as many Jews as possible – and his family ended up saving them.
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Actually if that really is a description of his “death”, then chances are that he really was a civilian. I doubt that a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank would find trouble finding a few AK’s. Yet apparently this guy went out to commit a terrorist attack (alone mind you) near the gate of a heavily guarded settlement with a hunting rifle? Unlikely.
Well, ‘holyland’, maybe you are a bit out of your depth.
You don’t use an AK 47 if you want to hit something from distance, you use a rifle.
Whos to say he was linked to a terrorist group, the fact is you can still commit a terrorist act alone.
I have no idea why you put quote marks around the word ‘death’, but I get the feeling you would like to call it something else.
I’ll just leave this with saying the family did a great thing.
Here’s why an AK-47 is strictly a terrorist weapon :
Every gun has a certain deviation when the bullets leave the barrel. It has to do with the length of the barrel, the relative size of the bullet, the amount of force the barrel is under, heat wave expansion in the bullet (if you only fire a single bullet expansion of the barrel doesn’t matter, since you let it cool off before firing the second bullet), …
But here’s the kicker : if a gun is precise, bullet and barrel must be manufactured to extremely tight tolerances, and it has to be cleaned to ten times shinier than the queen’s jewels or it’ll jam at the first shot*. In a normal long distance rifle (which is precise at about 200m), one grain of sand, whether on the barrel, on the bullet or even on the casing will jam the gun. It’s bulets leave the barrel precise to within about 3 arc seconds.
The AK-47 never jams. If you fill it with desert sand it will probably still fire. You don’t really need to clean it, it has such large tolerances. The barrel gets hot really fast though, so while the first bullet comes precise to within 15 arc DEGREES, the average bullet has only 30 arc degrees of precision.
So if you’re firing an AK-47 at a target straight ahead of you, 10 meters. A comrade of you is standing a meter ahead of you, and a meter to the side (not what you’d think is a particularly danguerous position). The target has nothing to worry about, no bullet will get him, but your comrade will get blown to bits.
That’s why it’s a terrorist weapon. It’s usable at 1-5 meters, after that you’ll most likely only kill your comrades. It’s a weapon used to exterminate large groups of people from VERY short distances, and it tends to make more friendly fire fatalities than enemy fatalities. At 10 meters distance you’re completely safe from an AK-47, while the weapon the Israeli’s use (which is a modifiable compromise between precision and fastshooting, combined with some modern technology) is quite useable at 50 meters, and there is a “long distance” model that can get you 200 meter range.
It’s amazing just how much weaker all “dangerous” weapons get after even a little bit of distance. Then again, at 1.3 km distance, and not being an idiot, you can survive a 200 megaton blast easily, so I guess this goes for every weapon existing.
But then again, it’s cheap as hell.
* if you jam a bullet in a sharpshooters rifle, you can throw that rifle away, the barrel is too deformed to ever let another bullet pass
So I like to emphasize things by quoting it, sue me. Anyway I wrote what I wrote and you wrote what you wrote. None of us know what really happened so lets leave it at that.
Oh by the way did Dave leave to Australia again or what? Hope his dad beats this monster.