MIDDLE EAST: Palestinian mourners bury two suicide bombers who carried out an attack in southern Israel

Record ID: 356948

  • Title: MIDDLE EAST: Palestinian mourners bury two suicide bombers who carried out an attack in southern Israel
  • Date: 21st February 2008
  • Summary: (MER2) HEBRON, WEST BANK (FEBRUARY 20, 2008) (REUTERS) AMBULANCE ARRIVING TO HOSPITAL AMID GATHERED CROWD OF PEOPLE BODY REMOVED FROM BACK OF AMBULANCE AMID CROWD OF PEOPLE WOMAN CRYING BODY BEING CARRIED INTO HOSPITAL AMID CROWD OF PEOPLE ELDERLY MALE FAMILY MEMBER OF ONE OF THE DEAD MEN BEING GREETED BY MOURNERS PEOPLE GATHERED IN HALLWAY OF HOSPITAL MORGUE CROWD OF PEO
  • Embargoed: 7th March 2008 12:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
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  • Story Text: Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron bury two Hamas suicide bombers responsible for an attack in southern Israel which killed an Israeli woman and wounded dozens.
    Hundreds of Palestinian mourners marched in a funeral procession in the West Bank on Wednesday (February 20) for two suicide bombers of the Islamist group of Hamas. The men carried out their attack in a southern Israeli town over two weeks ago (February 4).
    The bodies of Mohammed al-Herbawi and Shadi Zghayer were handed over to the Palestinians by Israeli authorities. The bodies were briefly placed in a hospital morgue, before hundreds of mourners carried them through the streets of the city of Hebron, as part of a funeral procession.
    On February 4, the militants launched the first suicide bombing in Israel in over a year. The bombing killed an Israeli woman and one of the suicide bombers. The other was shot dead by police.
    Hamas's Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades issued a formal statement claiming "full responsibility" for the suicide bombing in the southern Israeli desert town of Dimona, where a top-secret nuclear reactor is located.
    Both men had spent almost two years in Israeli jails and were known in Hebron as Hamas supporters.
    A spokesman of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades said the bombing was in response to "massacres by the occupation". He singled out the killing of 18 Gazans, including the son of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, by Israeli forces in January.
    Following the attack Israel killed nine Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said it was responding to Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
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