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Saturday, August 23, 2014
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, August 23, 2014
IDF chief was at Kibbutz Nahal Oz when mortar shell there killed Daniel Tragerman
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe army reveals that Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz was visiting Kibbutz Nahal Oz yesterday afternoon when mortar fire from Gaza hit the kibbutz and killed four-year-old Daniel Tragerman there.
The kibbutz dining hall was also hit by mortar fire, Army Radio reports.
The attacks on the kibbutz have seen most of its 350 members leave and take refuge further north.
Tragerman’s parents were about the head away when the fatal shelling happened.
Gila Tragerman, Daniel’s mother, said they were going to her parents in Kiryat Ono.
They were in their house when the fatal mortar shell exploded outside, sending shrapnel into the house and killing Daniel before he could get to their protected room.
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