Last Updated: November 02, 2023, 06:22 IST
Indian group members stated that Indian-origin Israeli soldier was “a young man with pleasant manners and a very bright future ahead.” (Image: Dimona’s Mayor/Insta)
Dimona is a city in the south of Israel recognized with Israel’s nuclear reactor however some additionally describe it as little India
An Indian-origin Israeli soldier was among the many Israeli combatants killed whereas preventing in Gaza, the Mayor of the city stated on Wednesday. 20-year-old Staff-Sgt. Halel Solomon was from the southern Israeli city of Dimona dubbed as little India. “It is with great sorrow and grief that we announce the death of a son of Dimona, Halel Solomon, in the battle in Gaza, Dimona’s Mayor, Benny Bitton said in a social media post.
“We share in the grief of the parents, Ronit and Mordechai, and the sisters: Yasmin, Hila, Vered, and Shaked …. Halel aspired to do a meaningful service and enlisted in the Givati (Brigade). Halel was a devoted son and had respect for his parents always in his eyes. Possessing immense good qualities he believed in endless giving, modesty, and humility. The whole city of Dimona is grieving his passing,” Bitton wrote.
Dimona – Little India
Dimona is a city in the south of Israel recognized with Israel’s nuclear reactor however some additionally describe it as little India given the massive focus of Jews from India in the township. Indian group members instructed PTI that he was “a young man with pleasant manners and a very bright future ahead.” They expressed enormous sorrow at his passing away and on the lack of lives of different younger Israelis “fighting a just war for Israel’s existence.”
At least 1400 Israelis had been killed in a lethal assault carried out by Hamas on Israel’s southern communities on October 7. They additionally took at the least 240 folks as hostages throughout that shock infiltration. Israel has declared battle towards Hamas which has managed the Gaza Strip since 2007 with two acknowledged objectives – elimination of the fear organisation and releasing the hostages. More than 8,000 folks have died in Gaza since Israel launched a counter-offensive.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the continued navy marketing campaign as a “difficult war” with “painful losses,” however vowed to proceed “until victory.” “We are in a difficult war. This will be a long war. We have so many important achievements but also painful losses,” Netanyahu stated. “We know that every soldier of ours is an entire world. The entire people of Israel embrace you, the families, from the depth of our hearts. We are all with you during your heavy sorrow. Our soldiers have fallen in the most just of wars, the war for our home,” the Israeli Prime Minister stated. “I promise the citizens of Israel: We will complete the work – we will continue until victory,” he stated.
(With company inputs)
