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Gideon Rivlin, left, in a family photo
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IDF soldiers at Morag after the attack (AP)
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| By israelinsider staff January 12, 2005 |
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| Morag after the attack. A smokescreen protects against sniper fire. (AP) |
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An Israeli civilian was killed and four soldiers were wounded Wednesday morning when an explosive device exploded along a patrol route near Morag, a settlement in southern Gaza.
The explosion was caused by a bomb planted in a tunnel dug under the road. Gideon Rivlin, 50, was working in or near greenhouses on the edge of the settlement when the explosion went off as the IDF jeep passed by.
Gideon Rivlin, 50, a father of five from the nearby community of Ganei Tal, worked for a company that installed security fences.
He was laid to rest at 7 p.m. in the Gush Katif cemetery in a military funeral, as he was assisting the security forces when he was killed by terrorists.
Rivlin has lived in Gush Katif since 1978. Nir, his eldest child, told Israel Radio, "This morning, like every morning, we went to work, me and my father. I was supposed to start working at Morag tomorrow and I asked him what the security situation was there. He said he was already on the way there to check on it. I was on my way out of the Gush [Katif], when I heard that there was an explosion at Morag. I turned around and started heading in that direction. I tried to reach him on the cell phone, he didn't answer me. When I got to Morag, I waited for the wounded to be evacuated, and he was not among them."
The two terrorists who carried out the attack were killed by IDF gunfire. Soldiers came under fire following the blast. The body of one of the terrorists was located near the site of the bombing, while another terrorist was found dead near a greenhouse.
The Gush Katif settlers' council said that the murdered man, as well as the four injured soldiers, were victims of the government's policy of restraint.
The Islamic Jihad terror group claimed credit for the attack, Reuters reported.
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