Palestinians bury 18 civilians killed in attack

Eighteen ambulances, flanked by Palestinian police cars, began the slow procession from hospital morgues in northern Gaza to the cemetery where 18 victims of an Israeli artillery attack were to be buried today.

A cemetery under construction in the town of Beit Hanoun, where the artillery rounds tore through a cluster of homes at dawn yesterday, was hastily opened to accommodate the victims, because no other cemetery in town had enough land to allow them to be buried together.