Apr. 30, 2021
The Abu Kabir forensic institute confirmed on Sunday that the bodies of all 45 victims from a mass stampede on Lag Ba omer festivities overnight Thursday have been identified.
The institute, based in Jaffa, announced that it managed to identify all the bodies by around midnight on Saturday. Of those, all but one have been released for burial. The final body will be released on Sunday, at the request of his family.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry said that at least four American citizens and one Argentinian are among the victims of the disaster.funerals of several of those killed in a mass stampede during Lag Ba omer festivities overnight Thursday in northern Israel has resumed on Saturday evening, following a cessation of burials over Shabbat after instruction by Israel s chief rabbi.
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Thousands attend the funeral of 22-year-old nursing student Ahmad Hijazi near the Arab city of Tamra, northern Israel, February 2, 2021 (Sraya Diamant/Flash90
The first part of Ahmad Hejazy’s funeral procession on Tuesday night was conducted in nearly total silence, with the only sounds the call of a prayer leader and the buzzing of a police drone overhead. Around ten thousand Arab Israelis had gathered for the funeral along Route 70, in violation of coronavirus restrictions against crowds.
As the last prayers in the funeral service rang out, mourners began overturning trash cans and setting them ablaze. Others launched scattered fireworks over the crowded highway.