A foreign worker was killed earlier today, Wednesday 25 Tammuz, in a mortar shell attack in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council. The field worker sustained grave injures and was pronounced dead in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.

The victim became the second civilian killed by rocket fire since Operation Protective Edge was launched. Olji Oda, a member of the Bedouin community in the Dimona area was also killed in a rocket attack.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)