JERUSALEM: Volunteers helped gravediggers at Israel's main military cemetery on Wednesday (Oct 11) as burials began for soldiers slain in the assault on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip
Mourners stand by the fresh graves of Israeli soldiers who were slain in the assault on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in an area of Mount Herzl Military Cemetery prepared in readiness to bury more casualties, in Jerusalem, Oct 11, 2023. JERUSALEM: Volunteers helped gravediggers at Israel's main military cemetery on Wednesday as burials began for soldiers slain in
Ori Kirzon, a 29-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew, said he came to Mount Herzl at 6.30am with other volunteers to lend a hand. Of the about 1,200 Israelis killed in the raids and ensuing clashes that began on Saturday, 169 have been identified as soldiers - at least 10 of them residents of Jerusalem.
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