ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FUNERAL-CLASHES Hundreds of Palestinians march in funeral in West Bank

Record ID: 135155

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FUNERAL-CLASHES Hundreds of Palestinians march in funeral in West Bank
  • Date: 21st October 2015
  • Summary: PRAYER FINISHES DEAD MAN WRAPPED IN HAMAS FLAG BEING TAKEN TO BE BURIED
  • Embargoed: 5th November 2015 12:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA41INXPOPIDXNY0R6F3LZKWIJU
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  • Story Text: Several hundreds of Palestinian mourners marched in a funeral procession on Wednesday (October 21) for a Palestinian killed by Israeli security forces after he stabbed and lightly wounded a soldier in the West Bank, the Israeli military said.
    The dead Palestinian was wrapped with a green Hamas flag, a large group of men and women prayed in an open field before he was buried.
    The Israeli army said the Palestinian driver then got out of his vehicle and tried to stab people before being shot by security forces.
    Israeli security forces have killed at least 46 Palestinians, including 23 assailants and demonstrators, one of whom police said fired a gun at them.
    Before Tuesday's incidents, eight Israelis were killed in stabbing, shootings and car ramming by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs in Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank. An Eritrean, mistaken as an assailant during an Arab gunman's assault in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, also died after being shot by a security guard and kicked by a crowd.
    The bloodshed began with a string of stabbing attacks on Israelis in Jerusalem. One reason given by Palestinians for the surge in violence is anger over perceived Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest shrine and also revered by Jews as the site of two ancient Jewish temples.
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