18-Year-Old Soldier, Civilian Killed in Hamas Attacks
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Date Posted: 2012-11-20 19:13:15
An IDF soldier who was critically wounded in a rocket attack Tuesday evening in the Eshkol region has died. He has been identified as 18-year-old Yosef Fartuk of Emanuel.
Fartuk was posthumously promoted from private to corporal.
An Israeli civilian was killed in a mortar shell attack in the Eshkol region at approximately the same time. The name of the second victim has not yet been released.
A second civilian was seriously wounded in the shelling. Sixteen soldiers were lightly wounded in the two attacks.
Another five soldiers were hurt in a separate attack. On Tuesday morning a reserves commander was wounded in a separate attack in the Eshkol area.
Civilians were wounded Tuesday in rocket attacks in the cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon and Rishon L'Tzion.
the Eshkol region has died. He has been identified as 18-year-old Yosef Fartuk of Emanuel.
