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(IsraelNN.com) Approximately 50,000 Palestinian Authority Arabs took part in a funeral for four terrorists from Bethlehem on Thursday.  The four were killed in an IDF operation on Wednesday.  Leading terrorists from Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP spoke at the event.  A senior Fatah terrorist called on PA Arabs to track down and punish Arabs who aid Israel.

According to the Bethlehem-based Maan news the nearby Church of the Nativity played funeral bells.  The dead men’s bodies were wrapped in Hizbullah flags.

One of the four terrorists was Muhamad Shehadeh, the head of Islamic Jihad in Bethlehem.  He was involved in several attacks on Israeli civilians, including two car bombings, two suicide bombings, and one shooting attack, all in Jerusalem.  Three Israelis were killed in the attacks, and 42 were wounded.