Barak sits with Karnit and Miki Goldwasser at the funeral. (Photo: Hagai Aharon, Ynet News)
From Reuters, Thu Jul 17, 2008, by Yoni Haviv:
NAHARIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel held funerals for two [murdered prisoners] on Thursday returned in a ...swap with Hezbollah, highlighting a somber mood that contrasted with celebrations in Lebanon for [the murderous terrorists] freed in the deal.
NAHARIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel held funerals for two [murdered prisoners] on Thursday returned in a ...swap with Hezbollah, highlighting a somber mood that contrasted with celebrations in Lebanon for [the murderous terrorists] freed in the deal.
...Defence Minister Ehud Barak said at Goldwasser's gravesite Israel was "heartbroken" and had "paid a heavy price" by freeing five guerrillas involved in lethal attacks against Israelis in exchange for the bodies, which were returned in black coffins.
...Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday singled out for criticism the honors that went to Samir Qantar, reviled ...for a 1979 attack that killed four, in Beirut. "Woe betide the people who celebrate the release of a beastly man who bludgeoned the skull of a 4-year-old toddler," Olmert said in a statement, referring to the girl Qantar killed with her father...
..."A more undignified and morally offensive spectacle is hard to imagine," English-language newspaper the Jerusalem Post wrote in an editorial of the festivities in Lebanon.
The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, quoting a senior Israeli source, said Israel now regarded Qantar as "worthy of death...."Israel will find him and kill him," the source said.
(Additional reporting by Nadim Ladki in Beirut; writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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