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Jul. 15, 2005
Dana Galkovitch, 22, killed by Kassam
MATTHEW GUTTMAN and Jpost.com staff
Dana Galkovitch, 22, was killed and her boyfriend was moderately wounded in the barrage of Kassams that targeted the western Negev on Thursday night.
A total of four rockets hit the upscale community of Netiv Ha’asara, located about a kilometer north of the Gaza Strip.
Galkovitch was sitting on the porch around 5:45 p.m. with her boyfriend, Amir Ragolsky, when a mortar scored a direct hit above them, crashing through the tin roof of the Ragolsky’s Netiv Ha’asara home and killing Dana. Amir was wounded in the attack.
Rescue teams that arrived on the scene were unable to save the 22-year-old communications student at nearby Sapir College, who hailed originally from the western Negev kibbutz of Bror Hayil.
According to sources in the community, the ambulances took a half hour to evacuate the couple.
As soon as the rockets struck, Aviva Fold, a resident of Netiv Ha’asara, called the Ragolsky family’s house to see if everyone was safe. Penina Ragolsky, Amir’s mother, is the chairman of the local committee of the 650-person town.
Fold said Amir, 24, told her: "I think my girlfriend was killed."
Penina, whose house abuts the bungalow in which Amir lives, said that Galkovitch "was like family."
Dana Galkovitz will be buried in the cemetery of Kibbutz Bror Hayil at 1:00 p.m., Friday.
In the same barrage, another three rockets were fired at Netiv Ha’asara, one of which caused extensive damage to a house, and left a resident lightly wounded. Two more were fired at the northern Gaza settlement of Nisanit, three at the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, four were fired at Nahal Oz and yet another fell slightly earlier near Sderot.
Three mortars were fired at Jewish settlements in Gush Katif as well, including one that fell near the house of David Hatu’el, whose wife and four children were brutally killed in a May 2004 attack that horrified the nation.
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