Word: funeralls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Skirmishes quickly spread to other parts of Gaza City. Officials ordered a curfew, to no avail. Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters filled the streets, chanting anti-Arafat slogans and menacing the authorities. One mob descended on Arafat's military headquarters and tried to pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals...
The funeral will be private. A memorial service will be held at a later date
November has not been kind to Yasser Arafat. He has suffered unprecedented public protests against his rule in the Gaza Strip, including the humiliation of being ousted from a funeral by jeering constituents. Palestinian authorities disclosed a rare outbreak of cholera, after initially denying the news. And, worst of all...
Israeli authorities had also made public a threat to liquidate the perpetrators of Islamic violence. Thus when Hani Abed, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad, was blown apart by a car bomb in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, Palestinian fingers pointed to Israel. Many Gazans also blamed Arafat...
"These days if you get out of the morgue and into the ground, you are lucky. But to be buried in Moscow is practically impossible. You have to be in the mafia or a major politician for that." --Vladimir I. Panin, chairman of the Kristall funeral company on the rising...