Five-year-old Ido Avigal. Photo: Screenshot
Red alert sirens signaling an air attack sounded in southern Israel, interrupting the funeral Friday of five-year-old Israeli boy Ido Avigal, who was killed by a rocket fired at the southern city of Sderot from the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group.
Mourners attending the funeral in Kiryat Gat were forced to lay down on the floor and take cover just as Ido’s family carried out their eulogies, according to Israeli media outlet
N12. Ido died from wounds caused by shrapnel after a Hamas rocket managed to damage the metal window of the bomb shelter in his residential home in Sderot, where he was sheltering with his family.
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Ido’s uncle Avichai described the rocket strike, which took place at his home, saying, “There was a red alert siren, and we all ran to the protected room. We heard the explosion, and then the shrapnel came through the secure room’s window, and the rocket hit the house next door.”
Gitit Gutara, whose home was struck by the rocket, said that the shrapnel’s ability to pierce the secure window showed “neglect.”
“It doesn’t make sense what happened here,” she said. “We’re shocked. … A child was murdered here, an innocent child.”