(31 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shaked, West Bank - 31 May 2023
1. Wife of Israeli man killed in West Bank shooting attack hugging body of her husband in shroud
2. Pan of wife
3. Close of wife of Israeli man killed in shooting attack
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yossi Dagan, head of Samaria’s regional council:
“We say to the barbarians at the Palestinian Authority - these cowardly murderers, you will never defeat us. We are Jews and God is with us.”
5. Wife standing next to body of husband
6. Woman weeps at funeral
7. People at funeral, woman wrapped with Israeli flag seen from back
8. Various of mourners carrying body of Israeli man killed in shooting attack
STORYLINE:
Hundreds attended the funeral on Wednesday of an Israeli man killed by Palestinian gunmen in a West Bank shooting attack.
“These cowardly murderers, you will never defeat us,” said at the funeral Yossi Dagan, head of Samaria’s regional council, “we are Jews and God is with us,” he added.
Tuesday’s attack happened near the settlement of Hermesh, in the northern West Bank, according to the Israeli army.
Local officials identified the man as Meir Tamari, a 32-year-old resident of the settlement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his condolences to the family and said forces were pursuing the gunmen.
The incident came a day after Jewish settlers erected a religious seminary in a nearby dismantled settlement outpost and was the latest in more than a year-long surge of violence that has wracked the West Bank.
During that time, Israel has expanded near-nightly military raids throughout the area in response to an increase in Palestinian attacks.
The fighting has picked up since Israel's new far-right government took office in late December.
At least 117 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, with nearly half of them members of armed militant groups, according to an Associated Press tally.
But stone-throwing youths and people uninvolved in violence have also been killed.
The Israeli army said the number of Palestinian militants killed is much higher.
Meanwhile, Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis in those areas have killed at least 21 people.
Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem, along with the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war.
Palestinians seek these territories for a future state.
Some 700,000 Israelis now live in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Most of the international community considers these settlements illegal or obstacles to peace.
The new Israeli government includes several prominent settler leaders in top positions. It has made the expansion of the settlements a top priority.
Video shot for AP by Alon Bernstein
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