AP reports that gunmen in the Balata refugee camp gave Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia a less-than-warm reception:
Palestinian gunmen fired shots and detonated an explosive device Wednesday as Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia left a building in a West Bank refugee camp where he was lecturing militants on the need to restore order to the streets.
Earlier, the militants fired shots at the building from outside while Qureia was speaking inside. The shots were not directly aimed at Qureia and did not appear to be an assassination attempt, and the explosive device went off several hundred yards away from him. Qureia was unharmed but clearly angered by the incident, the latest sign of growing chaos and internal unrest in Palestinian areas.
AP goes on to note that not all of yesterday’s Palestinian violence was politically motivated:
In the southern city of Hebron, about 100 high school students who complained their final exam in physics was too difficult attacked the education department, throwing stones and burning tires.
This would seem to indicate that the ‘blame anyone except yourself’ mentality has seeped down to a younger generation of Palestinians.
