Kfar Azar, Israel – IN PHOTOS: Thousands Attend Funeral For 2 IDF Soldiers Killed Sunday

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    Relatives and friends seen mourning at the funeral of Golani Brigade soldier Daniel Pomerantz who was killed during fighting in Gaza on Sunday, in Kfar Azar, near Tel Aviv July 24, 2014. Flash90Kfar Azar, Israel – Thousands attended funerals today held for two IDF soldiers that were killed in Operation protective Edge.

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    Golani Brigade Staff Sgt. Daniel Pomerantz, 20, from Kfar Azar, Died Sunday at the Shuja’iyya massacre, and Staff Sgt. Li Mat, 19, from Eilat died Wednesday in the explosion of a Gaza home booby trapped with explosives.

    13 Israeli soldiers were killed in the Shuja’iyya massacre which was a battle between Israeli forces and Hamas militants which took place on 20 July 2014 in Shuja’iyya, a neighborhood in Gaza City.

    Israel’s CH 2, reported that a friend from school, Sapir Idan, said of Pomerantz: “He was funny and had a heart of gold. He always knew that he wanted to be a combat soldier and he had great motivation to enlist to combat.” Pomerantz was from Kfar Azar.

    A family friend said that his mother, Col. (Res.) Varda Pomerantz, who serves as head of the IDF’s Casualties Department. said “She was always fearful that one day she might hear that knock on the door herself.”

    Below: funeral photos of Staff Sgt. Daniel Pomerantz.
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    Mat, served two years in the Paratrooper Brigade before he was killed in Gaza.

    Mat’s father Motti, who was an officer in the IDF’s Casualties Department, was informed by his friends from reserve duty of his son’s death. His mother, Smadar, is a teacher at the Galim elementary school in Eilat.

    Three years ago, Mat’s older brother, Gal, who was serving in the army at the time, was on the Egged bus which was attacked on Route 12 in August of 2011 by terrorists who had infiltrated from Egypt. Gal was critically wounded in his legs and underwent a lengthy hospitalization.

    Below: Funeral photos of Staff Sgt. Mat Li.
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    torontonian
    torontonian
    9 years ago

    absolutely heartbreaking.

    9 years ago

    AlterG: You’ve got to be kidding me. You’re either an idiot or you’re trying to make an extremely insensitive joke. Either way, I think it best that you keep quiet. It’s for people like you that other sites have moderators

    MiUnoichy
    MiUnoichy
    9 years ago

    Of course he states it wrongly but Jewish they are not. Not because of dress but because they don’t keep our holy Torah.

    FactChecker
    FactChecker
    8 years ago

    Israel only has murdered 581 children in 1 year alone, has 1.8 million mostly women and children under a racist, segregated military occupation as “collective punishment”, denies the people they hold under captivity basic food, clean water, and building supplies, has some 30 racist checkpoints WITHIN the West Bank, bulldozed 450,000 Palestinian homes replaced w/ racist “Jewish only” colonizations, bombed FIVE UN Shelters, schools, hospitals, homes, ambulances, power plants but no, Israel is the “victim”