Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 27 2024. (Courtesy)
The funeral for the 12th boy killed in a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams on Saturday is underway, Channel 12 reports.
Gevara Ebraheem, 11, had been considered missing for some 24 hours following the Saturday afternoon strike in northern Israel that killed 11 other children and teenagers, all of whom had been on a soccer field when the Iranian-made rocket impacted, cutting them down before they could make it to safety.
Police said last night that new findings at the scene of the strike had confirmed that Ebraheem was also killed, putting an end to his family’s hope that he had fled the scene of the strike and survived, according to Channel 12.
Funerals were held Sunday for the other 11 victims, 10 of them in Majdal Shams, on the southern slope of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, and one in nearby Ein Qiniyye, amid a mix of grief and anger in the devastated Druze community.
Druze women mourn by a coffin during a funeral of a child killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, that Israeli authorities said killed 12 people including children in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
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