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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Nirim security chief killed in mortar strike
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleOne of the two Israelis killed in the mortar strike on Kibbutz Nirim in the Eshkol Regional Council on Tuesday, just before the truce took effect, has been identified – 55-year-old Ze’ev Etzion, the security chief for the kibbutz.
Israel Radio reported that he was also a volunteer ambulance driver for Magen David Adom.
Another Israeli died on his way to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. A man who was seriously injured was operated on and is currently in intensive care.
They were fixing electric problems caused by another mortar strike.
The deaths bring the Israeli toll in Operation Protective Edge to 70 — 64 soldiers and six civilians.
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