Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Thousands take part in funerals of 3 gunmen killed in firefight with Israeli forces
Thousands of people take part in the Nablus funerals for three gunmen killed in exchanges of fire with Israeli forces this morning, among them terrorist Ibrahim Nabulsi of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Mourners chant, fire into the air and call “God is Great” as they lead the bodies to burial.
#watch || A solemn funeral for today's martyrs in Nablus. pic.twitter.com/nGAEvyORti
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Israeli officials said Nabulsi was part of a squad that had committed several shooting attacks against soldiers and civilians in the West Bank earlier this year. He and other gunmen fired at the troops as they came to arrest him.