AL-RAM, West Bank — Several hundred Palestinian mourners solemnly carried the body of 35-year-old Moayad Ghazawneh — draped in a Palestinian flag, and lying in a wooden, open casket — to the cemetery in the village of Al-Ram, just north of Jerusalem, on Friday afternoon.
Masked members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade fired machine guns and handguns from the rooftop of a local school, and residents stood quietly, while the body was laid to rest. After the funeral, at a separate entrance to Al-Ram, dozens of Israeli soldiers shot tear gas canisters across a normally busy roundabout and four-lane road towards rock-throwing Palestinian youth.
