(10 Jun 1996) English/Nat

The two Israeli West Bank settlers who were killed in a suspected terrorist attack on Sunday have been buried.

Shots fired from a passing vehicle riddled the couple's car with about 20 bullets. Their baby son, who was also in the car, was unharmed.

Israeli security services have been on high alert since the attack.

Thousands of Israelis attended the funeral of a couple killed Sunday near the village of Zekharia, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The victims, Efrat and Yaron Unger, were residents of the Jewish settlements of Kiryat Arba, which is adjacent to Hebron.

Shots from a passing car riddled the victims' car.

They veered into the opposite lane then rammed into a ditch.

Miraculously their nine-month old son survived the attack and was found unharmed beside the dead couple.

Unger, 26, taught at a religious school in the settlement, and his wife Efrat, 25, was a graphic artist.

Tensions have been growing in Hebron, a town of 94 thousand Palestinians, in the wake of Israel's May 29th election in which hardline opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu defeated Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

Local settlers fear more attacks.

SOUNDBITE:
It signifies that continually in the land of Israel Jews are not safe, regardless of where they are, where they travel or where they live.
SUPERCAPTION: Pesach Ben-Avraham, Kiryat Arba Settler

Netanyahu has not yet decided whether he will honour a commitment by Peres to Palestinians to pull most of Israeli troops out of Hebron this summer.

SOUNDBITE:
Yesterday's event just proves what we have always said that unfortunately there seems to have been a sort of ceasefire only up to the Israeli elections and the new government, once it is constituted - which has not yet happened - there is still the old government will look for ways and means to deal with that.
SUPER CAPTION: Zalman Shoval, Likud member

Hebron is the last West Bank city under Israeli occupation.

The Israeli daily Haaretz said Monday Netanyahu was inclined to withdraw troops from most of the city as promised, but that he would seek to keep more soldiers in remaining areas in order to assure safety of settlers.

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