“Three suspected Palestinian informers for Israel were shot and wounded by masked militiamen Monday in a downtown square in Ramallah,” the Nando Times reports.

“[…] A large crowd quickly surrounded the three, and bystanders tried to prevent approaching ambulances from rescuing the wounded men, witnesses said. Initial reports said one of the men died at the scene, but doctors later said all three were alive, though one was in critical condition” [my emphasis].

Witnesses said that five masked men had pulled the three alleged informers from their car in the downtown Clock Square in Ramallah and shot them in the legs. As the masked men fled the scene, they shouted that they were from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militia linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.

Reached for comment, a Human Rights Watch spokesman spat, “You ever see those squeegee people –all filthy and drug-addled — hanging out at intersections, homeless, hoping for a buck or two? Consider how American society brutalizes and humiliates them, why don’t you? Go on. Write about that. Smartass…”