The two-year-old boy Pares Benura, from the village of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem - died today (Wednesday) due to poisoning, after inhaling a dangerous pesticide that was spread in his residential building yesterday.
Not a few hours passed, and the Benora family was informed of another disaster when Maya, Fars' sister, did not survive the difficult event and died in the hospital.
At the same time, the parents of Fars and Maya were also injured and were referred for treatment suffering from poisoning in their bodies.
They are still hospitalized, the mother in intensive care.
They were poisoned in their residential building. Photo: Palestinian networks
The circumstances of the incident have not yet been fully clarified, but Beit Sahour said that one of the building's residents apparently sprayed about 30 packages of phosphine-type worm pesticide.
The upper apartment where the Banora family lived absorbed the toxic substance.
The emergency and rescue forces worked to clean the building and its surroundings from the deadly substance that had spread.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health ordered residents living up to 60 meters away from the Benura family's house to evacuate their homes for 48 hours, so that they would not be exposed to the poisonous gas.
"This is intended to preserve the lives of the residents, and to allow the professional teams to open the infected apartment and ventilate it from the dangerous substance. The security forces are accompanying the emergency evacuation," said Shadi Laham, director of the Bethlehem Health Ministry.
He pointed out that according to international standards, this gas is prohibited for use, and it does not have permission from the Palestinian Ministry of Health either.
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