JERUSALEM: HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS ATTEND FUNERALS OF TWO ISRAELIES KILLED IN PALESTINIAN BOMBING THAT CLAIMED AT LEAST SEVEN LIVES

Record ID: 400843

  • Title: JERUSALEM: HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS ATTEND FUNERALS OF TWO ISRAELIES KILLED IN PALESTINIAN BOMBING THAT CLAIMED AT LEAST SEVEN LIVES
  • Date: 20th May 2003
  • Summary: (U6) JERUSALEM (MAY 18, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV CEMETERY 0.04 2. SLV BODY ON STRETCHER BEING CARRYING OUT OF VEHICLE; MV MOURNERS CARRYING BODY ON STRETCHER (2 SHOTS) 0.28 3. MV PEOPLE CARRYING STRETCHER, LOWERING DOWN TO GRAVE, AUDIO OF WOMAN CRYING; SLV PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND GRAVE AUDIO WOMAN CRYING (2 SHOTS) 1.13 4. SLV RABBI COV
  • Embargoed: 4th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAB47AYHQN4L9ZW33OYXFME3H16
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Israelis have attended the funerals of two
    Israelis killed in a Palestinian bombing in Jerusalem that
    took at least seven lives and wounded some 20 other people on
    Sunday.

    Mourners gathered around the graves at a cemetery in
    Jerusalem to pay their respects to those killed in the attack,
    one of two suicide bombings that rocked the city on Sunday
    (May 18, 2003) morning. The attack happened only hours after the
    first high-level talks in months were held between Israeli
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Abu Mazen, his Palestinian
    counterpart.

    A Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a religious Jew
    killed seven people on a Jerusalem bus, prompting Israeli
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to put off a White House trip to
    discuss a U.S.-backed peace plan.

    Another suicide bomber struck soon afterwards at a nearby
    roadblock, but killed only himself, taking the overall death
    toll to nine in a new spasm of bloodshed just hours after the
    highest-level Israeli-Palestinian talks for over two years.

    Wearing a skullcap and prayer shawl, the first attacker
    blew himself up soon after boarding the bus. His bomb spewed
    out ball bearings, and blood and body parts stained the inside
    of the vehicle red. Police said seven people were killed and
    20 hurt.

    The Islamic militant group Hamas said on its website that
    it carried out the attack in Jerusalem's French Hill district
    on land occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

    Israel put ultimate blame for the attacks on Palestinian
    President Yasser Arafat, whom Washington is boycotting as an
    alleged orchestrator of violence. Arafat denies the charge.


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