http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/european-and-american-weapons-used-in-israeli


This article talks about the origin of some of the weapons and equipment used by the Israelis. And it has this to say about paintball guns...

"Israeli propaganda made much of the fact that the Gaza Freedom Flotilla hijackers "only" used paintball guns (that is until they started shooting people with live ammunition), as if this was somehow a "safe" or even a nonviolent thing to do! Paintball is considered by many people a sport where opposing teams hunt each other down and fire projectiles which explode against a target marking them with paint. Everywhere that this activity is legal, it is strictly regulated for safety, because firing paintballs at a person who is not wearing protective gear, especially a face mask, can result in serious injury including loss of eyesight and possibly even death. Firing paintball guns indiscriminately against unprotected civilians is an incredibly reckless and inherently violent and dangerous thing to do."

So what purpose is there in using paintball guns? My own theory, considering the fact that all of the paint used was red, and the fact that people appear to have difficulty figuring out what is paint and what is blood, is that they used it to confuse people about what they were seeing, and to cause them to think they were seeing paint when they were actually seeing blood.