Israeli authorities have identified Yvette Shmilovitz, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, as the fourth victim of Iran’s ballistic missile strike in Petach Tikvah last week.
Eight people were killed and nearly 300 wounded by the June 16 Iranian ballistic missile barrage across four locations in the central and northern regions of the Jewish state. Twenty-four people have been killed in Iranian strikes since Israel launched its attack against the country on June 13.
“The Petach Tikvah Municipality will accompany the family and assist as much as necessary, as it does with the other families who lost their loved ones in the severe attack,” said Rami Greenberg, the mayor of Petach Tikvah, according to Jewish News UK.
“We bow our heads and mourn the murder of four of the city’s residents who were killed following the missile attack from Iran,” he said.
“I’m devastated to learn that 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Yvette Shmilovitz z”l was killed by an Iranian missile in Petach Tikvah last week,” wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. “She survived the horrors of the Shoah and 80 years later was killed by Iranian terror in her own home—in the Jewish state.”
“This is who the Iranian regime targets. Innocent civilians in residential buildings. Children. The elderly. Holocaust survivors,” he stated. “May Yvette’s memory forever be a blessing.”