Funeral of Kerala woman killed in Israel on Sunday

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 15

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The funeral of Soumya Santhosh, who was killed on Tuesday in a rocket attack in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, will be held on Sunday in Kerala, said Union Minister V. Muraleedharan.

Soumya’s body arrived here on Saturday and was received by Muraleedharan. The Charge De-Affairs at the Israel Embassy in Delhi Rony Yedidia also paid her last respects.

The aircraft carrying her body had left from Ben-Gurion airport on Friday evening with the active involvement of the Indian embassy in Israel.

Soumya was working as a caregiver in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. She was talking to her husband when a rocket fired from Gaza directly hit the house where she was working.

She has a nine-year-old son in Kerala.

The home did not have a fortified room and she could not reach the nearby rocket shelter in time.

The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system has been largely successful but some Hamas rockets have made their way through leading to the deaths of some of its citizens.