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Dozens injured in Ramallah funeral clashes
Published Friday 08/03/2013 (updated) 11/03/2013 16:00
Palestinians carry the body of Mohammed Asfour, 22, during his
funeral in the West Bank village of Aboud near Ramallah March 8,
2013. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces clashed with protesters in the Ramallah village of Abud on Friday after the funeral of a man who died a day earlier after being wounded by Israeli forces two weeks ago.

More than 5,000 people attended the funeral procession of Mohammad Asfour, who was shot two weeks ago during protests in support of a hunger strike by four Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Following his burial, clashes broke out at the entrance to Abud village, with Israeli forces firing tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at villagers.

Soldiers chased village youths down alley-ways in the village, firing large amounts of tear gas, locals said.

Several people were injured by rubber bullets and suffered tear gas inhalation.




An Israeli army spokeswoman said that "earlier today around 1,000 Palestinians hurled rocks at security forces and they responded by using riot dispersal means."

There were no arrests or injuries, she added.

Mohammad Asfour was shot two weeks ago during protests in support of hunger striking prisoners and sustained injuries to the head, including bleeding in his brain.

He was in a coma before dying.
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1 ) Arnold / Canada
08/03/2013 21:29
The IDF is constantly being compared to the German army during WW 11. Well in that case the IDF should shoot to kill during these demonstrations. Because that is what the Germans did if any Jew got out of line.
2 ) ian / australia
08/03/2013 21:31
Hadn't the IDF done enough, shooting Mohammad Asfour two weeks earlier? Why were they even there at the funeral? The pictures show a sleepy little village which could have been left alone to bury the martyr. It's harrassment, entrapment, incitement to violence. A bullying occupier never letting the subjugated population forget who has the power! Israel in the West Bank really is the vilest regime.
3 ) @ Ian-2 / USA
08/03/2013 21:52
The IDF was at the village exit (see above), to prevent any violence from spreading into Jewish Areas, and NOT "there at the funeral."
4 ) JoeUSA / USA
08/03/2013 21:59
#1 . Why is the IDF in that village? Who are they trying to protect? Why don't they left the peaople burry the dead in Peace?. The IDF never misses an opportunity to confront the population to exert power over them. This is the only reason , power and nothing but power. If you are offedned that people compare the IDF to thre Nazis , well we consider you , Arnold from Canada , a Nazi sympathizer....
5 ) ian / australia
08/03/2013 22:34
#1 WTF? Is that the best defense of the IDF at Abud you can think of? High praise indeed Arnold. That they DIDN'T machine gun every Palestinian in sight. Like Einsatzgruppen. Wanna rethink that?
6 ) ian / australia
08/03/2013 23:06
#3 "The IDF was at the village exit (see above), to prevent any violence from spreading into Jewish Areas..." Oh please. Palestinian villages don't stage en masse attacks on "Jewish Areas" by which you mean illegal settlements. There's every indication the funeral and procession would have been entirely peaceful. IDF soldiers (in full riot gear) anywhere NEAR Abud was pure provocation.
7 ) ian / australia
08/03/2013 23:19
#3 "The IDF was at the village exit (see above), to prevent any violence from spreading into Jewish Areas..." Of course, there's the inbuilt lie there. The IDF never tries to "prevent" violence. It instigates violence. And the way to "prevent any violence" (which is NEVER attempted) would be to refrain from shooting young men like Mohammad Asfour may his soul rest in perfect peace.
8 ) Reader / from Edmonton
08/03/2013 23:29
The occupation forces do shot and kill: That's why the villagers were at the funeral. Arnold applauds them and encourages them to emulate the Nazis by shooting more Palestinians. When a respectable person cites evil it should serve the opposite purpose.
9 ) Tobias / USA
09/03/2013 00:07
If the funeral goers did NOT attack the soldiers then NOT even one would be injured, but Palestinians continue to make bad choices, for themselves, their children, and their state !!!
10 ) Truth / USA
09/03/2013 00:18
About 99% of Palestinians are governed by either the PA or Hamas, and the other 1% will ultimately accept that the government situation, or those that choose to "clash" with soldiers will continue being injured or killed, for decades or even centuries to come, and their bad choices, will continue to harm their children's future, and their potential statehood !!!
11 ) farouk / riyadh
09/03/2013 01:08
why they always using the hamas flag
12 ) michael / usa
09/03/2013 05:27
Well if the IDF is like the Nazis then they have quite a few more to kill. The Nazis murdered 12 million civilians. Maybe the IDF could try harder and use live ammo?
13 ) Mark of Lewiston / USA
09/03/2013 07:23
Why does Israel continue to invade and incite in Area A where the IDF has no business?
14 ) carine / UK
09/03/2013 09:49
#3. The IOF have a nasty habit of "being there" when a funeral is taking place, especially a high-profile funeral - not to prevent violence , but to provoke violence. If the IOF would let the Palestinians bury their dead in peace there would be no reason for Palestinians to retaliate.
15 ) carine / UK
09/03/2013 10:13
#1 - Look at the bottom picture - the Palestinians have blocked the entrance to their own village, which they have every right to do, to keep out undesirables such as IOF troops and illegal squatters - and you refer to this as them being "out of line" and the IOF should kill them!! You are what I would describe as one of those "despicable specimens of the human race"...
16 ) Outsider / EU
09/03/2013 13:03
1) If you read the article, you'd notice this was a funeral for a guy shot by the IDF.
17 ) Dalia / Jordan
09/03/2013 13:22
I am sorry that at this time and age you still don?t understand the conflict, i apologize to you that you are not educated enough to understand that Israel is a cancer, that keeps spreading, and now they do not have the right to kill who ever 'Misbehaves', we are not in the dark ages, don't claim to be a first world country while the thought of your people (like your self) is barbarian. be civil..
18 ) Dalia / Jordan
09/03/2013 13:23
what goes around comes around, so I hope the day you grief on the death of a friend and screaming, someone shoots you down to the ground, because you misbehaved :)
19 ) gabi / australia
10/03/2013 02:42
Oh, it's so nice to see the IDF showing respect for the people they shoot by attending their funerals!!! # 15 - Carine - # 1 "despicable" yes - a member of the human race? I don't think so . . . # 9 - where do I read that funeral goers "attacked soldiers? The report says "clashes broke out." Are you implying the IDF never shoots first, but only when attacked? Don't they have newspapers where you are living?
20 ) ian / australia
10/03/2013 06:46
#12 "Well if the IDF is like the Nazis then they have quite a few more to kill. The Nazis murdered 12 million civilians. Maybe the IDF could try harder and use live ammo?" You and Arnold should get a room. Or better form a Nazi appreciation society. You both seem strangely impressed by Nazi "achievements" and invoke them, with a kind of awe, in your bizarre threats about the grief, the world of hurt, the IDF could bring down if they really wanted to! Cripes guys! Can you hear yourselves?
21 ) ian / australia
10/03/2013 06:56
#9 "If the funeral goers did NOT attack the soldiers then NOT even one would be injured..." Jesus Tobias. It's like a murderer turning up at the funeral of the victim, hanging around in full view (with a dozen armed buddies) and claiming he was there to see things didn't get violent. Jesus.
22 ) @ Ian-6 / USA
10/03/2013 20:45
Like PA officials with mouths, that refuse to negotiate, YOU HAVE EYES, BUT REFUSE TO SEE (the above): - IDF troops are blocking a road, not in the village, and with nothing behind them but largely empty Israel controlled Area C lands, and a settlement further behid on a hill, and - Palestinians, carrying Hamas flags, are causing needless confrontation.
23 ) @ Ian-21 / USA
10/03/2013 20:53
Honestly, your lies are so obvious, for all to see, where: -a- The soldiers are NOT "murderers, -b- They did NOT "turn up at the funeral", but THE TRUTH IS that -c- HAMAS "ACTIVISTS", carrying Hamas flags, "TURNED UP AT" A ROADBLOCK, TO THROW STONES AT SOLDIERS.
24 ) Colin Wright / USA
10/03/2013 23:52
To Arnold #1 ' Because that is what the Germans did if any Jew got out of line.' ...and the Jews just took it. And that's what drives you crazy about the Palestinians. No matter how hard you try to reenact your humiliation with them as the victims, they just never cooperate. However incoherently and inconsistently, they keep resisting. The Palestinians HAVE to stop resisting your oppression. That's the imperative...and it will never be fulfilled. Sucks for you.
25 ) ian / australia
11/03/2013 00:02
#22 Again, do you think it remotely likely the villagers of Abud were about to storm the settlement on the hill? The funeral posed NO threat to anyone. Soldiers blocking the road were there to PROVOKE conflict not prevent it. C shmee. It's all occupied Palestine. Hamas flags? Why not? It's a valid political party with views no more extreme than a lot of racial supremacist kooks with seats in the Knessett!
26 ) Colin Wright / USA
11/03/2013 00:05
To Michael #12 ' Maybe the IDF could try harder and use live ammo?' It's people like you -- not people like me -- who will lead Israel to her death. What will prolong Israel's existence is a pretense of humanity, liberalism, etc. What will shorten it is frank, open displays of the brutality implicit in Zionism. So you keep urging her to let her all hang out. The more she does, the sooner it will be over.
27 ) ian / australia
11/03/2013 00:06
#23 "-a- The soldiers are NOT "murderers..." What part of FUNERAL don't you understand? '-b- They did NOT "turn up at the funeral" ' Look at the photos. The funeral procession was a long, winding affair with 5,000 people taking up the whole village. Look at photo 3. I'd called that "crashing" the funeral. "-c- HAMAS "ACTIVISTS", carrying Hamas flags, "TURNED UP AT" A ROADBLOCK, TO THROW STONES AT SOLDIERS." L-RD! Villagers mourning the death of Mohammad Asfour become "terrorists" attacking
28 ) ian / australia
11/03/2013 00:07
(contd.) soldiers at a "ROADBLOCK"!...a "ROADBLOCK" with no function beyond "causing needless confrontation". JESUS. They'd supply the rocks, truck them in in big bags and kind of scatter them round, ANYTHING for some conflict, if there weren't so many there already.
29 ) Colin Wright / USA
11/03/2013 00:08
To ian #20 'You both seem strangely impressed by Nazi "achievements" and invoke them, with a kind of awe' The Nazis did actually do what the Israelis only wish they could do. They're both fundamentally the same -- it's just that the Nazis were able to come closer to realizing the ideal. So of course Zionists invoke the Nazis as an ideal. They dream of the day they are able to do the same. Their attempts to realize this dream will destroy them -- but then, the same happened to the Nazis.
30 ) Rami / Palestine
11/03/2013 10:50
#10, I hate to break it to your 99% but according to Oslo Accords and the divided areas A, B, and C, less than 40% of the West Bank is under PA control...in facts its actuall somewhere in the high 20s to mid 30s. But you wouldn't know that would you?
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