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Adele Biton after terror attack.
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Tombstone unveiling ceremony held at grave of Adele Biton

Thirty days after four-year-old Adele Biton, who died of a lung infection two years after surviving a terror attack despite her critical condition, family and friends gather at her grave.

Thirty days after Adele Biton, the four-year-old girl who was critically wounded in a terror attack two years ago, died of lung infection-related complications her parents Rafi and Adva, family and residents of the Yakir settlement gathered at her grave to conduct a ceremony for the unveiling of her tombstone.

 

 

The nice weather that had been felt earlier on Thursday changed during the ceremony and rain began to fall.

 

Tombstone unveiling ceremony for Adele Biton. (Photo: Ido Erez)
Tombstone unveiling ceremony for Adele Biton. (Photo: Ido Erez)

 

"It's an eclipse. It was a nice day and now there is a black cloud," said Adele's father Rafi. "It's not business as usual, it's not natural. It is not logical to bury a four and a half year-old girl. The girl who did nothing suffered for two years. We are standing in a place that is not logical, a place where a dream of a girl who was not even five was severed, and somehow also her parent's dream. She is a public victim; everyone should say how they will improve from here and take on something personally."

 

The attack occurred on March 14, 2013 near the settlement of Ariel when a truck driver suddenly hit the brakes after his vehicle was struck by stones hurled by Palestinians. The car behind him, carrying Adele, her two sisters and their mother Adva Biton, lost control and collided with the truck. The two other Biton sisters, Avigail and Naama - aged four and five - sustained moderate injuries.

 

Prayers conducted at ceremony for Adele Biton. (Photo: Ido Erez)
Prayers conducted at ceremony for Adele Biton. (Photo: Ido Erez)

 

Following the attack, Adele was hospitalized at the Schneider Children's Medical Center and was later transferred to the Beit Levinstein rehabilitation center in Ra'anana.

 

Adele was released from the hospital to her home a year and a half after the attack, but returned to the hospital about a month ago in serious condition due to a lung infection from which she later died.

 

Ceremony for Adele Biton at Yakir settlement. (Photo: Ido Erez)
Ceremony for Adele Biton at Yakir settlement. (Photo: Ido Erez)

 

A month ago, there was no cemetery at the Yakir settlement, but Adele's parents insisted on burying her in their hometown, despite the Civil Administration not permitting it.

 

Adele's grave stands alone, the area around it fenced in and beside it a bench was placed.

 


פרסום ראשון: 03.19.15, 21:46
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