A Palestinian gunman fires a salute during a funeral ceremony for eleven soldiers which has been killed during Israeli airstrikes on a security headquarters in the West Bank city of Nablus May 19, 2001. The Israeli strikes on security headquarters in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in which at least 12 people were killed and 90 wounded came as reprisals for a suicide bombing that brought carnage to the city of Netanya.

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