West Bank Villages Hit by Deadly Settler Raids as Regional Tensions Grow
Mourners carry the bodies of three Palestinians killed in a reported attack by Israeli settlers in Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, during the funeral on March 8.
Photographer: Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty ImagesThe bodies of three Palestinians killed by extremist Israeli settlers were placed side-by-side in the schoolyard of Abu Falah, a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, wrapped in Palestinian flags.
Family and friends lined up to bid farewell to the trio, who were killed earlier in the day, in what was described by local officials and residents as a coordinated and sustained assault, and by the Israeli military as unacceptable. Homes were damaged and vehicles torched as residents sheltered indoors and gunfire echoed through the village. At least two dozen people were injured.