ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ HEBRON FUNERALS Palestinians hold funerals for two men shot after carrying out stabbings

Record ID: 134786

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ HEBRON FUNERALS Palestinians hold funerals for two men shot after carrying out stabbings
  • Date: 10th October 2015
  • Summary: HEBRON, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) PEOPLE AT FUNERAL OF A PALESTINIAN MAN WHO WAS KILLED DURING AN ATTACK ON AN ISRAELI POLICEMAN VARIOUS OF PEOPLE MARCHING / WAVING FLAGS OF PALESTINIAN FACTIONS / BANNER WITH PICTURES OF DEAD PALESTINIAN PEOPLE CARRYING BODY WRAPPED IN FLAG CHILD SITTING ON A TREE DURING FUNERAL BODY CARRIED BY CROWD PEOPLE MARCHING WITH PALES
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2015 12:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADDCS6DI56JXAEGJ4DA8R280F2
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Hundreds of people attended funerals in the West Bank city of Hebron and the village of Yatta on Saturday (October 10) for two Palestinian men who carried out attacks on Israelis and were shot by security forces.
    Carrying flags of Hamas and Islamic Jihad Palestinian factions, crowds marched the streets of Hebron carrying the body of a man, wrapped in a Hamas flag, who was shot after he stabbed an Israeli police officer in the arm in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba and tried to take his weapon on Friday (October 9).
    In the West Bank village of Yatta, near Hebron, another funeral was held for a 17-year-old killed after he stabbed a soldier on a bus in Kiryat Arba on Wednesday (October 7), grabbed his gun and ran into a residential building, where he was shot dead by Israeli special forces.
    Chanting "God is great", people marched through the village carrying the body of the man before relatives kissed the body and covered it in flowers.
    Tensions have surged in 11 days of violence in which four Israelis and 17 Palestinians - including several Palestinians shot by police, have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gaza and in Israeli cities.
    Scores of Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli troops and at least 12 Israelis have been wounded in almost daily Palestinian stabbing attacks.
    The violence has been fuelled by Palestinian fears that visits by Jewish groups, including lawmakers, to the Jerusalem Old City plaza revered in Judaism as the site of two destroyed biblical temples are eroding Muslim religious control of the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest shrine.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly he will not allow any change to the arrangements under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned.
    His assurances over conditions at the site, known as Temple Mount to Jews and Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, have done little to quell alarm among Muslims across the region.
    The violence is not of the intensity of two Palestinian uprisings in the late 1980s and early 2000s but it has prompted talk of a third "intifada".
    Both Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have called for calm and Palestinian police continue to coordinate with Israeli security forces to try to restore order, but there are few signs of the violence dying down.
    Palestinians want East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza - lands Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, for a future state. U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in April 2014.
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