Family of Palestinian killed by Gaza rocket fire sues Israel after firefighters missed body under rubble

The family of Mahmoud Abu Asabeh, who was killed by a rocket fired from Gaza in November, is suing Israel for millions of shekels after firefighters took hours to uncover his body under the rubble.

According to Asabeh’s relatives, rescuers did a quick search through the Ashkelon building that was struck and did not continue looking despite the fact that neighbors told them that residents remained trapped underneath the rubble.

Asabeh was found along with another woman by a local man over an hour after the rocket hit the building. The woman, who was in moderate condition, was rushed to the hospital, but Asabeh — a Palestinian from the West Bank city of Halhoul and a contractor with a permit to work in Israel — was pronounced dead on site and was the lone civilian casualty in the three day cross-border flare-up.