ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/TODDLER-FUNERAL MORE Body of Palestinian toddler killed by Jewish arsonists carried in funeral procession

Record ID: 145509

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/TODDLER-FUNERAL MORE Body of Palestinian toddler killed by Jewish arsonists carried in funeral procession
  • Date: 31st July 2015
  • Summary: DUMA, WEST BANK (JULY 31, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MAN SITTING AT MOSQUE NEAR THE BODY OF THE PALESTINIAN TODDLER MAN CRYING PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER, RAMI HAMDALLAH, AT MOSQUE PEOPLE HOLDING POSTER SHOWING PICTURES OF TODDLER PEOPLE HOLDING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND CHANTING SLOGANS VARIOUS OF MAN HOLDING TODDLER'S BODY IN FUNERAL PEOPLE AT FUNERAL PROCESSION GRAVE OF TOD
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5TMRIEBK9VSXVNPG1ZOSO6N4P
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Several hundred people attended on Friday (July 31) the funeral procession of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler killed by suspected Jewish attackers.
    The attackers had torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, also seriously injuring his parents and older brother. They were flown by helicopter to an Israeli hospital where they were said to be in serious condition.
    The house in Duma, a village near the city of Nablus, had its windows smashed and fire bombs thrown inside shortly before dawn as the family slept, the military and witnesses said. Graffiti in Hebrew reading "revenge" was scrawled outside, below a Star of David.
    Pictures circulated by Palestinian media on the Internet showed a smiling, chubby-faced boy, named as Ali Dawabsheh. Footage from the house showed blackened walls and singed family photos scattered across charred belongings.
    Several hundred people marched at his funeral procession calling for retribution.
    "With our souls and blood we shall redeem you, martyr," they chanted as the child's small flag-draped body was carried through the village for burial.
    It was the worst attack by Israeli assailants since a Palestinian teenager was torched to death in Jerusalem a year ago. That followed the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinian militants in the West Bank.
    The Israeli military boosted forces in the area to search for the suspects, described by a spokesman as "two masked terrorists", and prevent any escalation in violence.
    The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has called for revenge.
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