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Day 47 – Mother Remembers 4 Year Old; Soldier Critical; Rockets from Lebanon and Syria

by TheTower.org Staff |

Today was the forty seventh day of Operation Protective Edge.

An estimated 200 rockets were fired by Hamas and other terrorist groups into Israel on Saturday largely targeting southern Israel.

Gila Tragerman, mother of Daniel Tragerman who was killed by a mortar that was launched from Gaza talked about the tragedy.

“The children were playing in a tent inside the house, and from the moment of the siren to the explosion only three seconds passed. We didn’t have time to get the children and go into the protected room.”

Gila said her son Daniel was very disciplined when it came to rocket sirens.

“He always rushed to the protected room,” she said. “The moment the alarm sounded he knew what to do and where to go. When everyone reached the protected room Daniel would say ‘now we’re all safe.’”

She added that Daniel was a “beautiful, smart, sensitive boy. So sweet…We wanted to watch him grow up with his brothers and fulfill himself.”

As noted the report that the mortar had been fired from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facility was later retracted by Israeli authorities.

Netanel Maman, an off duty soldier who was injured when a rocket hit his car yesterday near Ashdod remains in critical condition.

“It’s too soon to say what will be, but within 24 hours we’ll be able to tell if there’s an improvement in his condition,” Prof. Jonathan Cohen told the news website Ynet.

Maman, 21, was wounded when a Grad rocket exploded near his vehicle outside the southern town of Gan Yavne, near Ashdod on Friday night. He was struck in the head by shrapnel from the projectile. Maman was on leave from the IDF’s Ordnance Corps after having served in combat in the Gaza Strip.

His brother Tamir who is in the air force was lightly injured and released from the hospital.

A rocket fired from Lebanon struck a building in northern Israel.

A rocket fired from Lebanon hit a building in an open area in the Upper Galilee on Saturday evening the police said.

Two children were lightly injured by shrapnel and four people were suffering from shock as a result of the attack.

The news agency NNA, citing its correspondent in Tire, said the rockets were fired towards Israel and that the Lebanese army had encircled the suspected launch area.

No group claimed responsibility for the rocket.

Subsequently five rockets were fired overnight from Syria into the Golan Heights.

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