Today has become a national day of mourning, PM says as teens buried
Tens of thousands crowd Modiin cemetery to pay final respects to three teens killed; you unified a nation, Peres says
Times of Israel
7/1/2014
President Shimon Peres delivering a eulogy next to the flag-draped bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach at their funeral July 1, 2014 (photo credit: Chaim Tzach)
The three Israeli teenagers who were abducted over two weeks ago and whose bodies were found in a field near Hebron Monday afternoon were laid to rest in a joint funeral in Modiin on Tuesday, after separate services were held in their hometowns earlier that day.
The three were kidnapped on the night of June 12 at a hitchhiking post south of Jerusalem.
Amid tens of thousands of mourners, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood alongside the flag-draped bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gil-ad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, and declared that the day had suddenly become one of national mourning…
The article continues at the Times of Israel.
Related: Netanyahu speaks at burial service for three murdered Israeli teens – as it happened
- Joint burial for Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel
- Bodies were found in West Bank
- Dozens of air strikes launched on Gaza Strip
- Israel blames Hamas for killings
- Palestinian killed during arrest raid in West Bank
Tens of thousands Israelis attend the joint funeral of Gilad Shaer, 16, Naftali Frenkel, 16, and Eyal Ifrach, 19, in the central Israeli town of Modiin on July 1, 2014. Photograph: GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images
H/T American Power where there is video of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s eulogy.
