Three killed Israeli teenagers to be buried side by side

  • 10 years ago
Funeral services in Talmon, Israel for 16-year-old Gil-Ad Sha'er.

He was one of three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were found Sunday in the occupied West Bank, in a field near Hebron under a pile of rocks.

The boys went missing on June 12 while hitchhiking.

Israel says the militant group Hamas was behind the killing, a charge Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied.

Israeli aircraft bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas.

Troops conducted an arrest raid in the West Bank, opening fire and killing a Palestinian.

People gathered where the victim, 19-year-old Yousouf Ibrahim, was killed.

He was just an innocent bystander, said an eyewitness.

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) WITNESS, MOHAMMED SAFOURI, SAYING:

"Me and Yousouf were walking, he was carrying a box filled with eggs. We were sitting here for a while, when we decided to go back home. Someone fired toward him."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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