(20 Nov 2024)
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Jerusalem – 20 November 2024
1. Soldiers arriving at funeral
2. Soldiers carrying coffin of Sergeant Roi Sasson
3. Friends and relatives crying
4. Soldiers carrying coffin
5. Family hugging
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yacov Babel, soldier in Sasson’s unit:
“You were the best, most loving commander a person could ask for. I wish we could go back to those moments with you. I can’t believe we’re talking about you in the past tense. The most honest and golden-hearted person you can know. You accepted us without experience and turned us into the warriors we are now."
7. Soldiers hugging family members
8. Close of person crying
9. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ohad Rafeal, friend of Sasson:
"Just to join you in celebrating at one last party, just for once. Unfortunately, that will never happen. Roi, you were more than a friend, you were like a brother to all of us. You were the one to call in the hard times, you were the first to support when we had nothing to do, but you also knew when to keep quiet, listen and support.”
10. Soldier laying down a wreath on the grave ++VIDEO AS INCOMING++
11. Attendees at funeral
12. Soldier laying down a wreath on the grave ++VIDEO AS INCOMING++
13. Wide pan of funeral
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of mourners gathered in Jerusalem on Wednesday for the funeral of an Israeli sergeant who was killed during the military campaign in northern Gaza.
Reservist Roi Sasson, 21, came from Mevaseret Zion and served in the Kfir Brigade, the Israeli military announced earlier in the day.
At the funeral service, a soldier who served under Sasson described him as a "loving commander," who had turned the soldiers in his unit "into the warriors we are now".
The Israel-Hamas war began after Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and abducting 250 others.
Around 100 hostages remain inside Gaza, although at least a third of them are believed to be dead.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed nearly 44,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities.
They do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but say more than half of those killed were women and children.
AP video by Alon Bernstein
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