Gadi Yarkoni, a resident of Kibbutz Nirim on the Gaza border was seriously wounded by a Hamas mortar shell is showing significant signs of improvement B”H. On Tuesday 14 Elul he was moved to the orthopedic unit after being in an intensive care unit since being wounded.
Yarkoni was wounded at the end of Operation Protective Edge when a mortar shell landed in the kibbutz. As a result of his serious injuries doctors had to amputate a portion of a leg. Zevik Etzion, the kibbutz security officer HY”D, was killed in that attack which occurred on 1 Rosh Chodesh Elul.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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