How Can We Ignore Their Death?

Around 10 this morning, a demonstration was launched in Beit Sahour, a town in the Bethlehem district. The demo started from in front of the Greek Orthodox church in the town, immediately after the Sunday mass. There was about 300 people at the demo. There were women and children, Muslims and Christians, religious and secular people, and it was led by a scouts group from the town.
This demonstration was actually a funeral ceremony. People of Beit Sahour had buried three today.
In the town, when a Christian dies, his body is taken to a burial site after being marching through the town, carried by people in a coffin. The scouts usually lead the procession - especially when the deceased is very known - drumming a sad tune. The priests then pray over the body of the deceased; “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust”, asking his/her God to have mercy on their soul.
Today, the three coffins were for the Arab League, the United Nations and the International Conscience. They were carried by the scouts who marched them in the town while drumming that tune, then buried in the town-centre. The priests prayed on “their souls” as people started chucking stones at the coffins - instead of ashes. When that was done, the scouts led the procession back towards the starting point. They were playing a happy tune this time, as if to say, ‘We got rid of the bastards. We are better without them anyway.”

Thank you Gaialing - from Bethlehem Bloggers: Voices from the Bethlehem Ghetto - for providing the images