Hamas Militants Qualify for Darwin Award

The Darwin Awards are given to people each year who do us a favor by removing themselves from the gene pool in some seriously stupid ways. Yesterday a group of Hamas militants qualified for their own Darwin Awards:

A truck filled with masked militants and homemade weapons exploded at a Hamas rally Friday, killing at least 15 Palestinians and wounding 80 — including children — bringing a grisly and terrifying end to one of the last gatherings by armed groups celebrating Israel's Gaza pullout.

The blast sent a huge cloud of white smoke over the mass festivities, a sea of green Hamas flags and thousands of people gathered at Jebaliya, a Palestinian refugee camp that was the scene of harsh fighting between militants and Israeli soldiers during the past five years of violence.

After initial confusion, people began running away from the rally and gunmen fired in the air. People wailed in grief as others tried to tend to the mangled and dismembered bodies of the dead and wounded.

Mishandled explosives apparently caused the blast, which came a day before an agreement by militants not to publicly parade weapons is to take effect.

Of course, Hamas immediately blamed Israel for the explosion, and shortly thereafter launched rocket attacks against Israel that killed four people. Israel is now vowing to crush Hamas, and thanks to the dummies in the parade who mishandled explosives and then the Hamas leaders who stupidly attacked Israel, a bunch more Hamas members will likely be meeting Allah in the near future.

All in all, probably not a bad result.