Ynet, July 25, 2006
Efrat Weiss
Rocket claims life of 15-year-old Daa
Daa Abbas, 15, was sitting in her living room watching TV with her mother and brother when a rocket hit the house, claiming her life. Neighbors and villagers from the Israeli Druze village of Mrar remembered her as ‘a lovely girl who always loved helping out’
The Druze village of Mrar mourned the untimely passing of 15-year-old girl Daa Abbas, who was struck down by a Hizbullah rocket fired from south Lebanon Tuesday. A neighbor remembered the adolescent: “She was a lovely girl, and cute. She always loved helping out.”
At around 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, rockets pounded the Lower Galilee village which is populated mainly by Druze. One Katyusha hit the Abbas home while Daa sat watching television with her mother and 17-year-old brother. “The rocket came in through the living room ceiling, went straight through the floor and into the TV room, and hit Daa,” her uncle Ahmed Abbas said.
The uncle, who was first to reach the household to try to help the family, told Ynet: “I heard an alarm, then I heard a boom. I saw smoke coming out of my relatives’ house. Since I live so close, I ran there. Everything was full of dust, you could barely see anything. The mother didn’t stop screaming. An ambulance came and took them both to the hospital, but she had no chance.”
According to the uncle, his family members did not stand a chance against the rockets because there are no protected areas in their village in which to take cover. Ahmed Abbas added that many residents asked that a bomb shelter be arranged for them, but nothing was done in the matter.
Shortly after the rocket strike, neighbors and villagers gathered around the Abbas family home, and were aghast at the extent of the calamity. Neighbors who witnessed the damage to the house agreed on one thing: “We never believed such a thing could happen in Mrar.”
