President Reuven Rivlin is visiting the family of a 15-year-old Israeli killed while working on the border fence with Egypt.
Rivlin is at the mourning tent for Nimer Bassem Abu Amar in Lakiya, a predominantly Bedouin village in southern Israel.
“We are all citizens of the same state, we are all human beings. The pain of bereavement is the same pain, whether it is a child from Lakiya, Jerusalem, Haifa or Tel Aviv,” the president says after being embraced by the father.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visits the family of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, 15, in the Bedouin town of Lakiya, in Southern Israel on October 27, 2016 ( Mark Neyman/GPO)
The slain teenager was employed by a civilian subcontractor hired by the Defense Ministry, who had been performing maintenance work on the fence.
The family says that no Defense Ministry officials attended the boy’s funeral.
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