Funeral held for teen killed during fatal attack on Israeli settlement
Jan. 30, 2016
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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thousands mourned on Friday in the funeral of a 17-year-old Palestinian from the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank who was shot dead while carrying out an attack in the illegal Beit Horon settlement earlier this week.
Hussein Muhammad Abu Ghush was killed alongside 23-year-old Osama Youssef Allan on Monday after the two stabbed two Israeli women in the settlement, one of whom died shortly after from critical injuries.
Israeli authorities handed over the bodies of both Palestinians Friday evening after withholding them for four days.
Abu Ghush’s body was taken in an ambulance from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to the Qalandiya refugee camp, where residents carried the 17-year-old on their shoulders to his family home.
Following final farewells bid by relatives, his body was brought to a mosque inside of the camp for funeral prayers before being laid to rest.
Abu Ghush is among at least nine residents of the Qalandiya refugee camp to be killed since a wave of unrest spread across the occupied Palestinian territory in October.