‘They were abandoned’: grief and anger at funeral for Hamas kibbutz victims
Mourners struggle to come to terms with scale of loss and vast ground operation to comeIsrael and Hamas at war – live updatesIsrael’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke of “a long and difficult” conflict as he announced the second stage of the war against Hamas on Saturday evening.For the mourners attending the funeral of Lili and Ram Itamari in a kibbutz close to the Gaza Strip, however, the war has already dragged painfully on for three long weeks.