“The tenth guy was killed yesterday.”
“Who killed whom?”
“It’s internecine violence. It’s been going on for three years. Palestinians killing Palestinians. It all started when a bunch of kids from one prominent Khalili (Hebron) family beat up a crowd of kids from another prominent family. Just kids playing rough. Then, youths from the beaten family came over and beat up the offending kids. The youth of that family then met them man-to-man, and violence broke out among them. First, fists and feet, then someone pulled a gun. And that’s how it started. The latest in the revenge killings was yesterday.”
“But–” This was all bewildering to us. We were just in al-Khalil. “Where do they get the guns?”
The taxi driver laughed at our naivety. “Where do they get the guns? From Israel, that’s where.”
At the risk of further evincing our stupidity we asked, “But — how?”
“The black market. Where there’s demand, supply follows. You think Palestinians don’t have guns? The men of al-Khalil alone, I assure you, have more guns than the entire American military. So long as they keep using them on each other, even Israel doesn’t mind.”
Sounds similar to the ghettos in the US :-/