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The father of a Border Police soldier wounded on the Gaza border: "There was a mess there, why does my son have to go to the hospital because of a demonstration?" | Israel today

2021-08-22T08:13:07.981Z


"How did they get to the fence? Since when are they not allowed to be shot?" Yossi, the father of Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who is hospitalized in Soroka in a critical condition after being shot in riots in the Gaza Strip, wondered.


The incident in the northern Gaza Strip:

Yossi, the father of Border Police soldier Barel Hadaria Shmueli who was fatally wounded by gunfire yesterday in riots on the Gaza border, said today (Sunday) in a conversation with reporters: "Of course there was a mess there.

How did they get to the fence, since when are they not allowed to be shot? "He wondered." They came to kill him, a big fad of the army, "his father stated.

So why does my son have to go to the hospital because of a demonstration? ”He said in pain.

Hadaria Shmueli, 21, from Be'er Ya'akov, is hospitalized at Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva, and his life is still in danger.

"We were told that the matter was under investigation," his friends said.

"Barel is a veteran fighter. Experienced. Therefore, the whole story here is not clear. Anyone who knows the sector and the activity knows that there was a command failure there," they claimed.

"Do not leave a fighter alone in a firing slit. There can be no situation where you approach an armed fence or wall and no one has identified it before," his friends stated.

"The strange thing is that it is not clear why firefighters are not allowed to shoot. There are many open questions. We all pray for medicine but there is no doubt that we will still want answers. Especially the parents."

Barel's parents at the hospital // Photo: Dudu Greenspan,

Sen. K., commander of the undercover unit of the Southern Border Police, was interviewed this morning by the GLC and commented on the condition of Hadaria Shmueli: "Barel is my fighter.

Salt of the earth, values, professional, sociable.

From the best of our sons.

He asks the people of Israel to pray that, with the help of the name Barel, he will recover from the serious injury. "

On the shooting that injured Hadaria Shmueli said: "It was an unusual and unusual event, he is currently under investigation. We are learning, and we will learn lessons. We came properly prepared, this is not our first activity in the sector. The demonstration itself was violent and hostile, which was not the case at the time. The latter. "

Hadaria Shmueli enlisted in the Border Police in 2019, and was assigned to the undercover unit of the Southern Border Police.

During his service he was involved in dozens of counterterrorism activities and the fight against serious crime in the southern sector.

Source: israelhayom

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