11-year-old girl from Bnei Brak dies of wounds from Iranian strike on Passover eve

Nesya Karadi was critically wounded when cluster bomb submunition hit her family’s home in central Israel on April 1; she is 21st victim in Israel of Iran war

By ToI Staff 24 April 2026, 10:12 pm

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Nesya Karadi, 11, died on April 24, 2026, of critical wounds sustained in an Iranian cluster bomb attack on Bnei Brak in central Israel on March 31, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

An 11-year-old girl critically wounded in a Passover eve Iranian cluster bomb attack on Bnei Brak succumbed to her wounds on Friday.

She was named as Nesya Karadi. She died at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, some three weeks after the April 1 attack.

Bnei Brak Mayor Hanoch Zeibert said the city was “bemoaning the passing of a pure girl whose entire future was ahead of her.”

“We pray that God sends comfort and healing to the parents and family,” Zeibert said in a statement. “The municipality will support the family and accompany it in any way that is needed in this time of pain and grief.”

The young girl was critically wounded when her family’s home in the Tel Aviv-area city was hit by a submunition from an Iranian missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead.

The April 1 strike took place hours before the Passover holiday and wounded 13 other people, including the girl’s father, who sustained moderate injuries.

Security and rescue forces inspect the damage at the scene where an Iranian missile caused damage in Bnei Brak, March 31, 2026(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

A first responder told Hebrew media at the time that the father, a volunteer with the Magen David Adom ambulance service, applied first aid to his daughter before losing consciousness when medics arrived.

Nesya Karadi is the 21st person killed by Iran’s missile strikes in Israel since February 28. All were civilians of Israeli or foreign nationality. Four Palestinians were also killed in the West Bank during the war with Iran.

Iran fired missiles and drones across the region after the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign on the Islamic Republic on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and drone programs.