The first Israeli victim of the escalation in the south: Inge Abramian was killed in a missile strike on a residential building in the city of Rehovot on Thursday. Abramian, a resident of the city in her 80s, was identified by the Abu Kabir Legal Institute and her family was notified.
At Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Sergei Abramian, who was wounded in yesterday's rocket strike on a house in Rehovot, is still hospitalized in light condition. His wife Inge was critically injured and killed, and only a short time ago she was definitively identified at the Abu Kabir Legal Institute. The couple, who had been married for over fifty years, both in their eighties, lived in an apartment in Rehovot on the second floor. There was a safe room in the apartment, but Sergei, an amputee following a serious car accident fifteen years ago, had difficulty getting around.
"They didn't make it to the safe room. He must have gotten nervous and Grandma tried to help him get up, but the alarm started too late, they had much less than a minute and a half to get to the safe room and they didn't make it," Arthur says. Inge was hit by a collapsed beam, while Sergei sustained only minor injuries. The family arrived at the apartment today, but were not allowed to enter due to the risk of collapse. "Everything was destroyed, there was nothing left," Arthur said.
He says that Inge and Sergei immigrated from Yerevan, Armenia, to Israel about thirty years ago. The couple have a son and daughter, and grandchildren. "Grandma was a Russian language teacher, an educated woman. A woman of her height and above. My grandfather had a manufacturing plant. Both had high status in Armenia, but in Israel they found it difficult to get along with the Hebrew language. After the accident in which my grandfather was involved, he became paralyzed in half his body. and conducted himself in a wheelchair. Grandma took care of him with devotion and love. She raised us all. Grandma was a woman of valor. I don't know what Grandpa would do without her. He communicated only with her. She was his whole life. There was a love between them that you don't see every day," the grandson said.
Inge's funeral will probably take place at the cemetery in Rishon LeZion, and the family asks the public to come, pay their last respects and accompany on her final journey the woman who educated generations of people for years. "Grandma just wanted to live her life with dignity and that's how she ended."
A residential building in the center of the city sustained a direct hit and surrounding buildings were also damaged. Referring to the rocket hit, the IDF Spokesperson said: "Preliminary investigations indicate that a barrage was carried out, when the rocket was not intercepted and hit the building. It is understood that there is a technical malfunction and the interceptor was launched and did not hit. As far as the rocket is concerned, it's a self-made rocket, there's no unusual rocket here."
Meanwhile, the Tair Crisis Center for Victims of Sexual Assault in the city's lowlands was destroyed. The center is adjacent to the damaged building and suffers extensive damage and severe damage as a result of the blast.
As a result, the Association of Crisis Centers for Victims of Sexual Assault launched a campaign for donations to find an alternative location and rehabilitate the center. The center's staff arrived yesterday and removed all the sensitive materials stored at the center, but the building will be put out of use for the near future. The union noted that as of Sunday, the crisis center has no place to carry out its work, including operating the helpline, support groups, meeting and accompanying victims and more.
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