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In a Matter of Minutes, Half a Family is Wiped Out

(Boston Globe) - The blast knocked Ayelet Shilon, her mother, and three children out of their seats and onto the floor of bus. Her first instinct was to stretch her small frame over her children to shield them - a move that probably saved the lives of two of them. Ayelet then phoned her husband Gal, a former air force pilot, and told him the bus was under attack near the gate of Emmanuel. As Gal advanced toward the bus, the Palestinians turned their rifles on the approaching car and sprayed it with bullets, killing him instantly. Inside the bus, a bullet struck one of Ayelet's twin girls, Sarah, killing her instantly. Another bullet killed Shilon's mother, Zilfa Kashi. Shilon suffered a serious head-wound and her 2-year-old son was lightly injured. (Yediot Ahronot) - Yoheved Ben-Hanan, 21, on Thursday became the ninth victim of the terror attack against a passenger bus at Emmanuel.
2002-07-19 00:00:00
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