Palestinians love to position people like this in the middle of conflict zones, hoping they’ll be killed and become fodder for the propaganda mill: Paralyzed Palestinian Man Killed. The Associated Press obliges with an article by Nasser Nasser glorifying this member of Fatah (Arabic for “conquest”), who was in a wheelchair because of his own violent actions.

QALANDIA, West Bank - Arafat Yaacoub survived so many shootings during the Israel-Palestinian conflict that his family felt God was watching over him. But on Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot Yaacoub for the fourth time, and killed him.

Witnesses said Yaacoub, 31, left a paraplegic from a previous shooting, was drinking coffee near the entrance to the Qalandia refugee camp when soldiers opened fire on stone-throwing Palestinian youths. A stray bullet hit Yaacoub in the head, killing him. The Israeli army said it was investigating the shooting.

Thousands marched through the camp on Monday, some carrying Yaacoub’s body and his wheelchair, during his funeral procession. “They killed him many times,” his brother Adel said of the Israelis.

Yaacoub was first wounded at the age of 14 during the first uprising in 1987, when he joined a group of boys throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. The soldiers shot him in the leg, according to his brother.

As a member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, he was jailed by Israel for 10 months in 1991, his brother said.

My sympathy meter seems to be stuck on zero. Tap, tap. Nope, it’s not budging.