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DURA, West Bank (AP) — The
funerals of three Palestinian
workers shot and killed by Israeli
soldiers brought cries for
vengeance Wednesday from fel
low Palestinians — and grim
promises from Israel that force
will be met with force.
“Blood leads to blood!” white-
scarved Palestinian schoolgirls
screamed as they marched through
the winding streets of Dura, the
hometown of three laborers slain
Tuesday night at an Israeli road
block on their way home from jobs
in Israel.
The deaths set off the West
Bank’s worst day of violence in
months, leaving 32 Palestinians and
an Israeli border policeman hurt in
a series of clashes Wednesday.
More ominously, the chain of
events raised fears that the two
sides were returning to the kind of
confrontations common before the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process,
which has been stalled for more
than a year.
In Dura, where nearly everyone
claims kinship or friendship with at
least one of the dead workers, every
shop and business was shuttered as
the entire town mourned.
Thousands of people — little
boys holding hands, old men lean
ing on canes, angiy masked youths
— marched in a funeral procession
or lined the streets to watch it pass.
At the home of Adnan Abu
Zneid, one of the slain men, his
black-robed widow Rima stood on
the steps with village women ulu
lating shrilly at her side. Thirty-four
years old, she is a mother of nine
children, including a boy born just
six days ago.
“The soldiers killed my hus
band,” she wailed. “Why, why?”
The bodies, shrouded in white
and draped in the Palestinian flag,
were paraded into the town’s rocky
burying ground after prayers in the
eucalyptus-shaded mosque.
Palestinian teacher Fahmi
Rayan, 47, gestured bleakly toward
the three waiting tombs. “I think
peace is going in there too,” he said.
The burials, as is customary in
Muslim tradition, came less than
24 hours after the men met their
violent end at the army roadblock
near the village of Tarkoumiah,
west of Hebron.
PREKAZ, Yugoslavia (AP) —Villagers lifted the coffin
lid and gazed inside Wednesday. The charred child’s tor
so had no head to turn toward the Islamic holy city of
Mecca as tradition requires, so they left the remains un
touched and lowered them back into the loamy earth.
For days, residents had refused to bury those killed
during a Serb crackdown on militant separatists from
the southern province of Kosovo. But after Serb police
did so Tliesday night—dumping coffins in a mass grave
— the people of Prekaz surrendered their light for the
autopsies they hoped would show the world that the
Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians was a massacre.
Prekaz men wielding shovels and pickaxes worked
beneath the gaze of Serb sharpshooters Wednesday
— while the rebel group the Serbs claimed to have
smashed said it would fight on for independence.
More moderate Kosovo Albanians reacted coolly to
Serbia’s offer for an open dialogue, even though Serb
officials said talks would begin Thursday. Ethnic Al
banians want independence for Kosovo province, not
a return to the broad autonomy that President Slobo
dan Milosevic abolished in 1989.
Kosovo, a southern province where 90 percent of
the population is Albanian, exploded into violence
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