Tonight (Saturday), President Yitzhak Herzog paid a condolence visit to the family home of the late Border Patrol Sergeant Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli in Beer Yaakov. -to.
Bar-El died at Soroka Hospital on Monday after being fatally wounded after being shot in the head by a Palestinian terrorist who approached the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip and was hit at close range.
The 21-year-old was in the fall.
The late Sgt. Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli, Photo: Border Police spokeswoman
The president heard from family members about Bar-El's unique and optimistic character, the difficulty and the sorrow and said: "Bar-El who paid with his life for the defense of the homeland was a hero. A brave warrior who was exemplary in fighting spirit and sacrifice. "However, it is also important to internalize that the battlefield will never be a sterile area."
At the end of his speech, he expressed his full confidence in the IDF to thoroughly investigate the incident and draw its lessons, emphasizing: "IDF commanders will continue to lead its fighters in the future as they have always done, "Bar-El fell as a hero in battle and disputes such as the debate that developed over the past week around his death must not make our enemies happy."