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Palestinian Rocket Attack: "Instead of a Party, We Have a Funeral"

[Jerusalem Post] Tovah Lazaroff - Yariv Katz knew his mother Shuli was dead when he saw blood spilling from her crumpled body after Monday's Palestinian rocket attack in Moshav Yesha on the Gaza border. The two had gone to Moshav Yesha to visit his aunt who was staying on the moshav with friends. Yariv had not understood that he was entering an area where Palestinian rockets regularly fell, since the rockets have not fallen on Kibbutz Gvar'am near Ashkelon, where both he and his mother lived, even though it is within rocket range. "If I had known that there would be Kassams I would not have gone there," he said. Shuli and her husband Rafi were childhood sweethearts who were born in Israel, grew up on the kibbutz and married at age 20. Shuli worked for 35 years as a nurse, and they had four children and five grandchildren. The family had begun to organize a large party to celebrate her 70th birthday next month, Yariv said. "Instead of a party, we have a funeral."
2008-05-14 01:00:00
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