Funerals in Gaza (26 images)

Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of Jaber al-Ashrat during his funeral in the southern Gaza strip April 11, 2006. Ahras, a Palestinian militant, was killed on Sunday during gun battles with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (UPI Photo /Ismael Mohamad)

Fighters of Hamas with their weapons, pray during the funeral of Ahmed Barhoum, 24, a fighter of Hamas, in Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip, May 18, 2005, Barhoum was killed by an Israeli tank bomb in Rafah, palestinian security said.(UPI Photo /Ismael Mohamad)

Palestinians carry the body of Sadq Al-bleshe during his funeral after he was killed in an Israeli air raid in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip on March 2, 2008. Israel has kept up its deadly assault on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas halted all contacts with the Jewish state over the blitz threatening to sink peace talks. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)

Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of three members of Islamic Jihad, during their funeral in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on March 7 2008. The three militants were killed late yesterday when an Israeli aircraft struck at the southern town of Khan Yunis, Palestinian medical sources said.(UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)