Rafah - Thousands of Palestinians packed a Rafah football stadium to pay their last respects to 16 victims of Israel's offensive here, hours after the army ended its occupation of the battered Tal al-Sultan area.
About 10 000 Palestinians, some of them armed, marched through the streets of the poverty-stricken town in the southern Gaza Strip to the stadium and on to the main Rafah cemetery, where radical militants vowed to seek revenge.
"Our martyrs will savour the rest they deserve," said local Islamic Jihad commander Shaher Abu Radi. "We will continue your struggle until we have taken back our capital Al-Quds (Jerusalem)".
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