Israel Retaliates for Terrorist Bombing in Jerusalem
STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: The U.S. State Department is renewing its warning against travel to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in response to yesterday's suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem pizzeria. Today, Israel buried its dead and struck back. CNN's Mike Hanna with details.</s>MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The funerals of those killed in the terror attack went through the night and into the day, 15 Israelis and Jewish visitors to Israel mourned. Among them, five members of the Schevischorder (ph) family, the parents, Tzira (ph) and Mordechai (ph), and three children, aged 14, 4 and 2. Two now orphaned children remain in hospital. Another funeral for Shoshana Greenbaum (ph), a 31-year-old American who was five months pregnant. Her family decided she should be buried in Israel.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She's here and she will stay here.</s>HANNA: Among the speakers at her funeral, the American ambassador, Daniel Kurtzer.</s>DANIEL KURTZER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL: We hope that the peace and security...</s>HANNA: He became the focus of one mourner's anger for the U.S. administration's past criticism of Israeli attacks against Palestinian targets.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are now talking about peace? What a joke is that! You are the number one supporter of terrorism, you don't let us retaliate when it's needed!</s>HANNA: Part of Israel's action in the wake of the Jerusalem bombing took a familiar form. Israeli F-16 fighters fired missiles at a police command post in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Fearing just such an attack, the police had abandoned the post before its destruction. There were no casualties. But another reprisal was unprecedented: Israeli forces took over areas of East Jerusalem that until now been under Palestinian Authority administrative control. Among the buildings seized, Orient House, a social and political center that has long been a symbol of the Palestinian aspirations of an independent state with its capital in Jerusalem.</s>SAEB ERAKAT, CHIEF PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR: The mere sight of the Israeli flag over the Orient House, the symbol of Palestinian nationalism, statehood, capital and peace, to be flying over the Orient House is telling the Palestinians, your dreams are killed, your aspirations are no longer there, and Israel's fait accompli policies will prevail.</s>HANNA: The Israeli government says the move was intended to send the clearest of messages to Yasser Arafat.</s>DORE GOLD, SHARON ADVISER: If the Palestinian Authority continues to support violence, it is important that Israel and the international community make it clear that they cannot advance their political agenda, their political goals. Violence will bring about a reversal of Palestinian goals, not their advance.</s>HANNA (on camera): No matter what the political goals of either side, after the bomb attack Thursday and the Israeli actions in its wake, Jerusalem is once again clearly at the center of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Mike Hanna, CNN, Jerusalem.