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Israel releases body of slain Palestinian from al-Khalil

Saturday 5-August-2017

Israeli authorities released Friday evening the body of the martyr Rafaat Hirbawi from al-Khalil who was killed by Israeli forces last month.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society received the body after the Maghrib prayer at the Israeli military liaison office.

The body was then taken to al-Ahli Hospital where hundreds of Palestinians gathered to give him a last farewell.

Family sources affirmed that the funeral is scheduled to be held on Saturday.

Hirbawi was killed on July 18 after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack that injured three Israeli soldiers.

Earlier Friday Israeli authorities returned the bodies of two martyrs: Abdullah Taqatqa and Mohammad Tenouh from Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.

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