Eliahu Galil, father of a teen who participated in the annual trip held in the North, where a 15-year-old boy was killed and about 20 other people were injured as a result of an explosive device detonation, said that "this thing basically could have ended much worse." He added that his son sent him after the incident the photo of the explosive device, which the students even held in their hands, but according to him the explosion did not occur immediately: "They got excited about it, took photos, apparently one of the kids put it in a bag - and it exploded when the bag was on the side."

