The Defense Ministry will recognize a Palestinian killed in Ashkelon by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip last year as a terror victim and compensate his family.
Mahmoud Abu Asabeh, a 48-year-old from the West Bank city of Halhul, was in Israel on a work permit when the building in Ashkelon he was staying at was struck by a rocket during a major flareup in November between the Israeli military and Gaza-based terror groups.
Mahmoud Abu Asabeh, 48, from the West Bank town of Halhul north of Hebron, was killed late Monday, November 12, 2018, when a rocket launched by Gaza terrorists struck a home in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. (Twitter screen capture)
The family will now be compensated financially and receive a monthly stipend of over NIS 10,000 ($2,700.)
“We welcome the Defense Ministry decision. However, clearly no financial compensation can heal the wounds,” family lawyer Mohammed Raheel tells Channel 12 news. The decision comes after his family sued Israel for tens of millions of shekels, saying the time it took rescue workers to find his body led to his death.
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