Couple who lost baby in terror attack say Israelis’ support ‘strengthening’ them

Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran, the couple whose newborn baby died in last week’s terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, hold a press conference at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem where they are hospitalized.

“I feel like the Israeli people is strengthening me,” says a wheelchair-bound Shira Ish-Ran, 21, who had been seven months pregnant when a Palestinian gunman shot and seriously wounded her and six others on December 9. The baby was delivered by doctors in an emergency C-section but died four days later, while the parents’ condition has steadily improved.

“Our baby managed, in the three short days he lived, to do more than others could in an entire lifetime; it simply united us,” says her husband Amichai, who was also injured in the attack.

“We wanted to say thank you to God who blessed us with miracles. I got three bullets in the leg and with God’s help I will be able to walk,” adds Amichai, who thanks the family, the hospital staff, the paramedics who saved Shira’s life, and the whole nation.