ISRAEL/JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: THOUSANDS OF ISRAELI ARABS GATHER IN SHFARAM FOR FUNERAL OF TWO SISTERS SHOT DEAD ON A BUS BY A JEWISH MILITANT

Record ID: 400172

  • Title: ISRAEL/JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: THOUSANDS OF ISRAELI ARABS GATHER IN SHFARAM FOR FUNERAL OF TWO SISTERS SHOT DEAD ON A BUS BY A JEWISH MILITANT
  • Date: 5th August 2005
  • Summary: (W3) SHFARAM, ISRAEL (AUGUST 05, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT FUNERAL (2 SHOTS) 0.19 2. BACK VIEW: TWO WOMEN STANDING NEXT TO WINDOW WATCHING FUNERAL 0.25 3. VARIOUS OF WOMEN STANDING NEXT TO COFFINS (2 SHOTS) 0.41 4. HAS: THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS MARCHING IN FUNERAL PROCESSION 0.45 5. HAS: AMBULANCE DRIVING IN PROC
  • Embargoed: 20th August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: SHFARAM, ISRAEL/JERUSALEM/BEILIN VILLAGE, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVACQ8DCO6H2DCWUXM97COILLH2W
  • Story Text: Arab Israeli's bury two of the dead from bus attack.


    Thousands of Israeli Arabs flocked the streets of
    the northern Israeli town of Shfaram on Friday (August 05)
    in a funeral for two sisters shot dead by a Jewish militant
    in an attack that put Israel on alert for a possible wave
    of Arab unrest.

    After women and men mourned over 22-year-old Dina Turki
    and 24-year-old Hazar Turki separately, thousands embarked
    on the funeral procession leading the local cemetery.

    Mourners chanted religious verses and called for
    retaliation as they carried the two coffins.

    Four Israeli-Arabs were killed in the attack which
    prompted fears of a possible wave of Arab unrest throughout
    Jerusalem and Israel. At least 22 people, most of them
    Arabs, were wounded.

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon condemned the gunman, a
    teenage Israeli soldier who was beaten to death by enraged
    residents after the attack in the Arab town, as a
    "bloodthirsty terrorist" bent on poisoning Jewish-Arab
    relations.

    Sharon vowed that Israel would begin pulling its
    settlers and forces out of the occupied Gaza Strip as
    planned on Aug. 17, no matter what attempts were made to
    thwart it.

    Thousands of Israeli police redeployed to heavily Arab
    areas of northern Israel, where Thursday's attack aboard an
    intercity bus occurred, to pre-empt potential riots before
    or after the funerals.

    Arabs make up about one-fifth of Israel's population
    and often complain of discrimination. They have sympathized
    with a Palestinian revolt in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
    and Gaza, but few have got involved in militancy. Israel's army
    sai
    d the gunman, Eden Nathan Zaada, 19,
    had deserted his unit recently and was "of problematic
    background".

    Fears of disturbances at a Jerusalem shrine sacred to
    both Muslims and Jews eased after 35,000 Palestinians
    completed Islamic prayers and dispersed without incidents
    reported.

    Guarded by heavy Israeli security at the old city of
    Jerusalem to pre-empt potential riots when thousands of
    Palestinian Muslims walked into the Al-Aqsa mosque to hold
    a peaceful Islamic Friday prayer cession.

    Meanwhile dozens of demonstrators protesting against
    Israel's erection of the controversial West Bank barrier
    clashed with Israeli soldiers guarding the construction
    site on Friday (August 05) at the West Bank village of
    Beilin.

    Israel has built more than a third of the planned 600
    km (370 mile) barrier, which it says keeps out Palestinian
    suicide bombers. But construction has been held up by
    appeals filed by Palestinian petitioners.

    Palestinians say the network of razor-tipped fencing
    and concrete walls robs them of land they need for a viable
    state.

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