ISRAEL: Muslim mourners gather for funeral of two Arab Israelis killed by Hizbollah rocket

Record ID: 396727

  • Title: ISRAEL: Muslim mourners gather for funeral of two Arab Israelis killed by Hizbollah rocket
  • Date: 6th August 2006
  • Summary: CLOSE OF MEN LOOKING AT GRAVE
  • Embargoed: 21st August 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: War / Fighting,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA8NQPFFMTPJIXE2QH73IE8ER51
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Muslim mourners gathered in the northern Israeli village of Majdal Kroum on Saturday (August 5) to lay to rest two Israeli Arab men who were killed by a Hizbollah rocket attack.
    24 year-old Mohammed Manna and 35 years-old Baha Kareem were killed on Friday (August 4) when a barrage of rockets from Lebanon hit their village of Majdal Kroum near the town of Carmiel in the Galilee region of northern Israel.
    Hundreds of mourners came to the northern village to take part in the Muslim funeral for the two cousins. They gathered at a local mosque to hold prayers for their souls and later marched in a funeral procession throughout the streets of the village and laid them to rest at the local cemetery.
    Another two Israelis were killed in an earlier barrage of rockets on Friday (August 4), including a woman in a direct hit on her house in the Druze-Arab village of Maghar.
    An army spokesman said that another barrage struck the deserted Syrian town of Quneitra on the Golan Heights, with some rockets landing in Syrian territory and others landing on the side occupied by Israel.
    On Saturday a Hizbollah rocket barrages from Lebanon killed three people and wounded five.
    The three were killed when a rocket hit a house in the Israeli Arab village of Arab al-Aramshe.
    Earlier, 10 rockets smashed into the northern outskirts of Haifa, Israel's third largest city, wounding five people and damaging cars and buildings.
    Hizbollah fired dozens more rockets that struck northern Israeli villages including Kiryat Shmona and Maalot as well as the city of Nahariya, officials said.
    The guerrillas have stepped up attacks in recent days.
    On Friday, two missiles landed in open areas near the city of Hadera, about 80 km (50 miles) from the Lebanese border. That marked the deepest strike yet since the war with Hizbollah erupted more than three weeks ago.
    The guerrillas have fired some 2,600 rockets into northern Israel, killing 33 civilians.
    Hizbollah said the latest strikes were in retaliation for Israeli attacks that had killed civilians in Lebanon.
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