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| Light-Rail Terrorist Buried Amid Clashes Outside East Jerusalem Home |
| 2014-10-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian man who killed two in a terrorist attack on Wednesday was buried by his family in East Jerusalem Sunday night amid protests outside their home against a police ban on mass attendance of the funeral. Abdelrahman al-Shaludi, the man who rammed his car into a packed Jerusalem Light Rail station last week, was given a quick burial in the Moslem cemetery next to the Old City attended by a small number of family members, the NRG news site reported. According to Israel Radio, Israel Police deployed a significant number of officers to the area to secure the ceremony. In the attack Shaludi killed three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and Karen Yemima Muscara, an Ecuadorian citizen in her 20s who had come to Israel to convert to Judaism, and injured seven others. Muscara was also laid to rest on Sunday. Hundreds of East Jerusalemites gathered outside the Shaludi home in Silwan to take part in the funeral, despite the fact that his family conceded to police restrictions on attendance. Police had feared his funeral would add to already inflamed tensions in the capital, and a court ordered that only 20 people -- whose names had been approved -- be allowed to attend his funeral in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, and the funeral would have to be at night. According to Arabic reports cited by NRG, nine people were maimed in festivities with the police in Silwan after officers attempted to disperse the gathering. His family said Sunday evening they would accept his body, AFP reported. Shaludi's family had earlier threatened they would not receive the body if strict limits on the number of mourners at the funeral remained in place. "The dear departed deserves a great and dignified funeral," family front man Abad Shaludi told the Israeli media outlet Ynet. "We will not agree to accept the body with the [funeral] conditions set by the police. If they leave the conditions in place, then it's better to leave the body with them." Jawad Siyyam, an activist from Silwan, where the Shaludis reside, alleged that Israel had threatened the family they would bury him on their own if they did not accept the conditions. His family rejected those terms, but eventually the two sides agreed 70 people could attend, according to Siyyam. A police spokeswoman confirmed the body would be handed over, but denied the quota had grown to 70 participants. Shaludi -- who, according to Israel, was a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, activist from Silwan -- was originally set to be buried in a Moslem cemetery near the Old City's Lions' Gate at 10 p.m. Saturday after a court authorized a service to be attended by a maximum of 80 people, for fear the event could turn into a violent protest. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... police postponed the burial and rescheduled it for a time window between 11 p.m. and midnight with only 20 mourners, whose names would have to be submitted to police in advance, allowed to attend. Tensions are already running high in Jerusalem, where police and officials have vowed to crack down on several days of festivities between Paleostinian protesters and Israeli forces. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 I hope Clash is a local slang for latrine. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-28 19:39 |
| #4 Just scatter the ashes of the body everytime. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-10-28 09:28 |
| #3 Punish the families = basic unit of selection in Arabs. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-28 03:59 |
| #2 Can't even have a funeral without a riot. Charming people. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-28 03:14 |
| #1 All dead terrorists should be bathed in pork fat before being returned for burial. that might deter such terrorism among those sincerely religious, and expose the others as frauds. |
| Posted by: djk 2014-10-28 00:14 |