The Israeli teen injured in a Gaza rocket attack on a school bus died April 17, a day after a weeklong cease-fire between Israel and Gaza terror groups was disrupted.
Daniel Viflic, 16, was declared dead at Beersheba’s Soroka Hospital, 10 days after arriving there, Israel Channel 2 reported. He sustained severe head trauma after a rocket fired from Gaza slammed into his school bus traveling outside of Kibbutz Sa’ad in southern Israel near the Gaza border. The bus driver, the only other occupant of the bus at the time of the attack, also was injured.
Viflic had been in a deep coma with no brain activity for at least a week.
Early on April 16, Israeli airstrikes hit two terrorist bases near Gaza City in retaliation for rocket fire on two southern Israeli cities, disrupting an unofficial cease-fire. The Israeli attack came hours after two long-range rockets were fired from Gaza on Ashdod and Ashkelon.
The cease-fire had started a few days after the school bus bombing. The calm came after weeks of increased rocket attacks by Gaza terrorist groups that had hit Israel, which was followed by Israeli retaliatory strikes. — jta