Grief at slain family's funeral

Some mourners collapsed in the stifling heat

A large crowd gathered for the funeral of five members of the Schijueschuurder family in the suffocating heat of a small prefabricated synagogue in Jerusalem.

You never even learned to talk properly. You never learned to live properly

Slain toddler's brother

Parents Mordechai and Tzirli and three of their eight children were killed on Thursday when 23-year-old Palestinian Izz el-Din al-Masri entered a pizza restaurant in central Jerusalem and detonated explosives strapped to his body as he stood next to the Schijueschuurders' table.

Two thousand people came to pay their respects, many from settlements in the West Bank where the family had lived.

Injured Leah was determined to attend her family's farewell

Two other daughters survived the blast, one of whom, eight-year-old Leah, attended the emotional event on a stretcher with an intravenous drip stuck in her veins.

Standing next to the shrouded bodies, one family's three surviving sons said of his late two-year-old sister Chemda: "You never even learned to talk properly. You never learned to live properly".

He promised to "look after his two other brothers who are still alive", as the crowd broke out in tears and loud cries of anguish.

What were they doing? They were taking their children for pizza on a fun day during vacation

Mourner

Many of the dead were children and teenagers. Another was 31-year-old Judith Greenbaum, a pregnant school teacher from New Jersey in the US .

The Schijueschruurders had themselves swapped the relative safety of the Netherlands 14 years ago to build a life in the Jewish settlement of Talmon in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Young victims

Toddler Chemda was the youngest victim of the blast. Her older siblings Ra'aya, 14, and Avraham, 4, also perished.

The family members were buried side-by-side at Givat Shaul cemetery

"What were they doing? They were taking their children for pizza on a fun day during vacation," sobbed one mourner.

Amid the grief there was also anger against the whole Palestinian people, and support for Israel's controversial policy of killing Palestinian activists it believes are involved in terror attacks against Jews.

Michal Gur, a friend of Ra'aya, said she had been a girl "who only did good for those around her."

"I don't want to say that everyone is bad, but today, I can't see any good Palestinians," she said.