WEST BANK: Palestinians bury two killed in Israeli raids during hunt for missing teens

Record ID: 565503

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinians bury two killed in Israeli raids during hunt for missing teens
  • Date: 22nd June 2014
  • Summary: NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES NABLUS, WEST BANK (JUNE 22, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RELATIVES MOURNING OVER BODY OF AHMAD FAMAWI PEOPLE HOLDING BODY DURING FUNERAL PROCESSION
  • Embargoed: 7th July 2014 13:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Crime,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAB652ILG4ZM9S9MLF4G5DDM4HG
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians attend funerals for two men killed by Israeli troops in raids on the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Nablus.

    Hundreds of Palestinians on Sunday (June 22) attended the funerals for two men killed by Israeli troops as it pressed on with its crackdown on Hamas, the Islamist group it accuses of abducting three Israeli teenagers.
    In Nablus, residents buried one of the two killed men, Ahmad Famawi, 26, who was killed during an overnight raid in the city where Israeli soldiers fired at stone-throwing Palestinians, residents and medics said.
    Soldiers entered several Palestinian cities and villages in the occupied West Bank, rounding up six suspected militants, the Israeli military said.
    Israel has said its West Bank operation is twofold - to find Gil-Ad Shaer and U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both aged 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, who went missing near an Israeli settlement on June 13, and to deal a substantial blow to Hamas.
    Hamas, sworn to Israel's destruction, has neither denied nor confirmed involvement in the disappearance of the youths.
    In Ramallah, people held body the of Mohamed Attallah, 30, on a stretcher outside of a mosque during a funeral procession, while crowds gathered around waving flags of various Palestinian political movements.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in public remarks to his cabinet on Sunday, said Israel had conveyed its evidence against Hamas to several countries and would soon make it public. He defended Israel's military action in the West Bank.
    Cautioning that Israel was "bringing the situation towards an explosion", the Palestinian Authority said it had launched efforts to convene an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council to try to end the offensive.
    The military has so far searched some 1,350 sites in the West Bank and detained more than 330 Palestinians. The raids have triggered street clashes in which four Palestinians have been killed.
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