Itongadol.- ‘We always said that you’d be the youngest world leader who would bring peace,’ Daniel Tragerman’s mother says
Hundreds of people, among them President Reuven Rivlin, attended the funeral Sunday of Daniel Tragerman, 4, who was killed by shrapnel on Friday when a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip exploded near his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
“We were the happiest family in the world, and I just cannot come to grips with it,” said Daniel’s mother Gila Tragerman, at the funeral.
“We wanted to say thanks (to Daniel); you taught us how to love and you gave us so much joy. I find solace in the fact that you were a loved and happy child until your last minute.
“We wanted to protect you but even the code red siren failed to save you,” she continued.
“You would always run first and call your little brother (to the shelter), and then in a second it ended. We don’t want to say goodbye.
President Reuven Rivlin also attended the ceremony, and said "We dreaded the moment more than anything. We saw preschools suffer hits and abandon bikes and we knew the terrorists have no regard for the blood of their children would not spare our own."
Tregerman\’s parents Gila and Doron, had left their home in the south due to constant rocket fire from Gaza, but decided to return just a few days ago partly on the promise of security officials, including Chief of Staff Benny Gantz who said that residents of the south would be safe.