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CNN Live At Daybreak

Israeli Teens Try To Cope With Violence

Aired December 03, 2001 - 05:34   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: As Palestinian police round up those suspects, Jerusalem's young adults are trying to come to terms with the weekend's violence and the bloodshed.

CNN's Chris Burns reports this morning grief turning now to rage.

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CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Teenagers mourn their fallen friends at ground zero. This time from a triple bombing that struck the heart of Jerusalem, killing mostly young people on a night out. It struck many Israelis in the heart.

This older woman screams that she's lost three family members in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Far right Israelis gather here, chanting for hard-line Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to resign. One protester carries a sign reading no Arabs, no terror.

Another takes to a balcony with a dark twist to a well-known song. A more subtle act of defiance, an Israeli flag scrawled with we shall not surrender. Teenage witnesses return to remember.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Around me I see my friends on the floor with (INAUDIBLE) over with blood, glass.

BURNS: Workers pick up the pieces of buildings, windows and flesh. Following Judaic law the tiny remains are gathered for burial. Comrades laid to rest,a soldier killed in the attack. The wailing sometimes drowns the chanted prayer for the dead.

The soldier's sister asks who's going to take care of father and mother. We had so many plans together before she is overcome with grief. The guns bid her brother farewell. In a hospital Hia Miller visits her son, 18-year old Nathaniel. He tells his Rabbi how two friends were seriously wounded by nails and bullets packed inside the suicide bomber. Bullets rained on Nathaniel, but only one entered his hip.

HIA MILLER : I just look at that and I think one here and four here, and one there, and here he is. That's all I can say. I just -- I feel I just gave birth to him again. That's how I feel really.

BURNS: Here at Jerusalem's ground zero thoughts turn to where the next bombing could be. Hospital officials say they're bracing for more attacks and more victims as Israelis try to carry on despite the fear.

Chris Burns, CNN, Jerusalem.

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