(16 Apr 1996) Natural Sound

Israel is mourning the six million victims of the Holocaust.

A national day of remembrance began with two minutes of silence and a mourning siren heard throughout the country.

In a television interview, Prime Minister Shimon Peres, said the Holocaust could have been prevented if Israel had existed as the strong country it is now.

People gathered at the main state ceremony at the Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem for a two-minute silence Tuesday.

They were marking the national day of mourning for victims of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis killed millions of Jews.

On Israel's northern border with Lebanon, soldiers broke off their onslaught on Hezbollah to join the rest of the country in remembrance.

And in the town of Nahariya, which has been hit by Katyusha rocket fire over the past days, residents stood in memory of the World War Two dead.

Israel's Prime Minister Shimon Peres, joined people standing in silence at the main state ceremony in Jerusalem.

There, Peres laid a wreath at the eternal flame and a prayer for the dead was read.

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