Brian Director, a 27-year-old truck driver from the northern city of Ma’alot-Tarshiha, was killed yesterday when a Hezbollah rocket struck a park in Nahariya. The Ma’alot-Tarshiha municipality said he was the sixth resident of the city, population 22,000, killed since the start of the war.
Director was driving his truck on Thursday when the sirens began around noon. He exited his truck to take cover by a brick wall in a park.
After the strike occurred, teams from Magen David Adom arrived at all the affected sites. They found Director in the park with critical injuries from shrapnel. “We performed medical checks but unfortunately his injury was critical,” David Vaknin, a paramedic from MDA, said. “He had no signs of life, and we were forced to declare his death.”
Emergency medical personnel also treated a 40-year-old woman who was lightly injured by the blast and a 44-year-old woman lightly injured by broken glass and by the blast itself.
Director will be laid to rest today (Friday) at 11:00 a.m. at the new cemetery in Kibbutz Ga’aton. His family will sit shiva, the traditional Jewish week of mourning, in their home at 30 HaHagana Street Apartment 7, Ma’alot-Tarshiha.
This article was translated from Hebrew by Leah Schwartz.
