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Daniel Tragerman’s mother: We were about to leave the kibbutz
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe mother of 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was killed by a Gaza mortar shell on Friday, says the family was preparing to leave their home for safer areas when the attack came.
Gila Tragerman says a shell had exploded in their kibbutz some time earlier, convincing the family to leave for her parents’ house in Kiryat Ono, near Tel Aviv.
“The suitcases were already packed,” she tells Ynet. “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.”
“We wanted to see him grow up,” she says.
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