“You didn’t know anything of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. You didn’t know anything about war or peace. You were pure, but we have neighbors, little boy, who are animals, murders that kill little children age 4. We will not forget, we will not forgive. He doesn’t even know that you exist.”
So said Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal at the funeral of four year old Afik Zahavi, who was murdered yesterday when PLO Arab terrorists fired rockets at Sderot.
Afik will never know what it is like to attend school.
He will never know what it is like to form strong bonds and friendships.
He will never know what it is like to play sports.
He will never know what it is like to have a crush on a girl.
He will never know what it is like to get married.
He will never know what it is like to have children of his own someday.
Instead, little Afik will always remain the four-year old child whose life was cut brutally short by people who rejoice in his murder. A people whose aim in life is to spread as much death and destruction as possible.
“I love you, my dear boy.I will see you everywhere.. I waited 15 years for this child… It wasn’t his time to die, I would have gone instead of him.”
So said Afik’s father, Itzik Ohayon, as he buried his small child, something no parent should ever have to do. And while Afik was being buried, his mother struggled for her life at Be’er Sheva’s Soroka hospital after sustaining serious injuries in the attack.
May G-d bless Afik and Mordechai Yosepov, the other victim of the attack, as well as their families.
May He avenge their deaths and the deaths of all of those innocent people murdered by those who are trying to make a mockery of Him.
