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Hundreds attend funeral of drowned Israeli returned by Hezbollah
By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent
Gabriel Dawit, whose body was returned Monday as part of an exchange between Israel and Hezbollah, was buried Wednesday in Be'er Sheva.
No official representative from the government attended the funeral, but hundreds of friends and relatives came to the city's New Cemetery to bid farewell to Dawit, who drowned off the coast of Haifa in January 2005, aged 28.
The mother of the deceased was brought to the funeral on a stretcher. Several family members expressed anger at the absence of government representatives, and at not having been told about the circumstances of Gabriel's disappearance, the finding of his body or the months-long negotiations with Hezbollah until Monday.
Unofficial sources in the Prime Minister's Office said Wednesday that a meeting will be scheduled with the family to clear up their lingering questions.
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