The tragic accident in Benjamin:
Mother Hoodia encourages, whose children were killed in the fatal accident about four months ago, passed away today (Thursday) after a long struggle for her life.
She was injured in a car accident in December at Ofarim Junction.
Three killed and three seriously injured in an accident near Ofarim // Photo: Yaniv Levy-Paz
Hoodia Oded was fatally injured in the car accident and lost her two children, Tov Rai (3) and Hillel (6), and the fetus she was carrying in her womb.
The father of the family, Yaniv, was fatally injured in the accident, but woke up two weeks later in a coma and began a lengthy rehabilitation process.
The serious accident occurred on Road 465, near the Ofarim settlement in Binyamin.
"The heart aches to the heavens"
An investigation into the accident in Benjamin revealed that the collision occurred when the Palestinian vehicle made a U-turn in a continuous dividing line.
The two young Palestinians in the vehicle were also killed.
Members of the Moeded family, residents of Baruchin in Samaria, moved there from Rehovot, a week before the accident.
The family was on their way to Nof Ayalon, near Modi'in, to spend Shabbat with their grandparents, Hoodia's parents.
Family cheering in the background of the accident scene, Photo: Fire and Rescue
The collision was powerful, as evidenced by the long time it took for firefighters from the Binyamin Regional Station to rescue the trapped from both vehicles.
Lahav Lior Alkrif, deputy commander of the shift at Binyamin Regional Station, said: "The firefighters rescued trapped and killed in the very serious accident. The accident was frontal, and the rescue complexity was significant. They were trapped very badly and the rescue operations took a long time."
The wrecked vehicles at the scene of the accident in Samaria, Photo: Fire and Rescue
Medical forces arrived at the scene and provided medical care to the injured.
The deaths of the two young men in the Palestinian vehicle, which an inspection revealed to be a "Mashtuba" vehicle - a vehicle that was taken down for dismantling and prohibited from use - were determined after they were rescued.
The death of 3-year-old Tov Rai was also determined at the scene.
Father Yaniv and 6-year-old daughter Hillel were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in a very critical and critical condition, where doctors were forced to determine the girl's death shortly thereafter.
"All the doctors' resuscitation efforts have come to naught."
The children were laid to rest in the Rehovot cemetery.
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