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Mosby

(16,375 posts) Mon Sep 23, 2013, 02:51 PM Sep 2013

IDF soldier killed in Hebron laid to rest in Haifa

Staff Sergeant Gal (Gabriel) Kobi, who died after being shot in Hebron, was laid to rest Monday afternoon in Haifa's military cemetery. Thousands, including dozens of Givati soldiers, attended the funeral. His father Ovad recited Kaddish together with Gal's brother Or'el, and his mother Smadar could not believe the reality, saying "it cannot be true, they did not take you away from me."

Kobi's Battalion Commander Lieutenant A. said: "The choice to be a combat fighter is not obvious. It is a choice that says a lot of about Gal, about the values by which he was brought up, and the house he was raised in. He was a leading soldier, admired by his soldiers and commanders. While protecting the Jewish settlement in Hebron, he died." Chief IDF Rabbi Brigadier-General Rafi Peretz was also present at the funeral.

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Kobi was killed by a Palestinian sniper in the vicinity of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He took a single bullet to his neck and was evacuated in critical condition to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where he died of his wounds shortly after. Following the shooting, police and army forces set up roadblocks in the area in attempt to locate the shooter.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4432768,00.html

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IDF soldier killed in Hebron laid to rest in Haifa (Original Post) Mosby Sep 2013 OP

Fatah official: Israel responsible for soldier’s death in Hebron Mosby Sep 2013 #1

Perhaps Israel should pull out of the Peace talks in protest azurnoir Sep 2013 #2

Mosby

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1. Fatah official: Israel responsible for soldier’s death in Hebron

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Mon Sep 23, 2013, 02:54 PM

Sep 2013

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government are the ones responsible for the death of IDF soldier Sgt. Gal Gabriel Kobi, Fatah central committee member Abbas Zaki said Monday. Kobi was shot by a sniper while on patrol in Hebron on Sunday.

Netanyahu and “his extremist government” are the cause of the soldier’s death, Zaki said according to an Israel Radio report. Kobi wasn’t “on a sightseeing tour in Hebron,” he added.

The prime minister’s Monday announcement that, in response to the incident, Beit Hamachpela, a building near the West Bank city’s Tomb of Patriarchs which was previously boarded up by order of the Defense Ministry, would be immediately resettled, only “legitimizes settlements and aggression,” Zaki said.

Kobi’s death was the second West Bank killing of an IDF soldier in recent days. On Friday, Sgt. Tomer Hazan, 20, was lured to a village near Qalqilya in the West Bank by 42-year-old Nidal Amar, who kidnapped and killed him in the hope of trading the corpse for his brother’s release from Israeli prison.

An Israeli official said late Monday that Israel will submit a complaint to the US over insufficient action on the part of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank in recent days.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/fatah-official-israel-responsible-for-soldiers-death-in-hebron/

azurnoir

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2. Perhaps Israel should pull out of the Peace talks in protest

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Mon Sep 23, 2013, 03:00 PM

Sep 2013

is simply giving the settlers a Palestinians home really enough?

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