Ten days after her husband was killed in battle by Hamas gunmen inside the Israeli border with Gaza, the widow of Warrant Officer Bayhesain Kshaun, 39, gives birth to a baby girl early Thursday.
Holding her fourth child — whom she named Tal-Or, or “light,” a harbinger of happier days, of “light for us, light in the house, even though he’s gone” — in her arms, a visibly forlorn Galaitu Kshaun speaks of her pride in her husband and of the difficulty of carrying on without him.
Galaitu Kshaun, widow of slain IDF soldier Bayhesain Kshaun, speaks to Channel 2, Thursday, July 31, 2014, with her new daughter in her arms. Sgt.-Maj. Kshaun was killed by Hamas gunmen emerging from a tunnel inside Israel last week (screen capture)
“Another day goes by, another day that we didn’t hear his voice. It’s not easy,” Galaitu says. “It becomes more difficult with each day that passes.”
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