Statistics and Tragedies - Remembering Sderot terror victims

A million people is a statistic, but one person is a tragedy...

 

We Remember!  
 
Afik Zahavi and Mordechai Yosepov killed by a Qassam Rocket Four Years Ago

Exactly four years ago Afik Zahavi, four years-old, and Mordechai Yosepov, 49, were killed by a

 

Qassam rocket fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip at 8:15 in the morning on June 28, 2004. The rocket struck near a nursery school in Sderot.

 

 

Ruth Zahavi, was taking her son Afik to the nursery school, when the rocket landed and exploded. She was critically wounded in the rocket attack, along with ten other people who were lightly hurt.

 

 At Afik's funeral, his father, Yitzhak, prostrated himself on the small body and wept, "I love you Afik. I will see you everywhere. Look how many people are here accompanying you." The boy's mother remained in intensive care in Beersheba's Soroka Hospital at the time.

 

 

 

Mordechai Yosepov was sitting on a bench near the Lilach nursery school, where his two grandchildren attend, when the same rocket killed him. Yosepov came to Israel in 1993 from Uzebkistan. He was on his way to the Employment Service to find work when the Qassam rocket struck.

 

Continued: We Remember!