Israel says 11‑year‑old killed by missile
- Israel said 11-year-old Nesya Karadi died on April 25 after nearly three weeks in intensive care, following wounds from an Iranian missile strike that hit her family’s home in Bnei Brak on April 1. - Israeli and local reports said the missile carried cluster submunitions; one struck the Karadi home hours before Passover, wounding 14 people in Bnei Brak, including Nesya, who had been hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center. - Her death renewed attention on Iran’s use of cluster munitions in populated Israeli areas, which Human Rights Watch called unlawful under the laws of war. (hrw.org)
Israel said 11-year-old Nesya Karadi died on April 25 after being wounded in an Iranian missile strike on her home in Bnei Brak on April 1. (jns.org) (timesofisrael.com) Karadi had been in intensive care at Sheba Medical Center for nearly three weeks after the strike, which came hours before the start of Passover. (jns.org) (msn.com) Israeli reports said the weapon that hit Bnei Brak carried cluster submunitions, and one of those bomblets struck the Karadi family home directly. Emergency services said 14 people were wounded in the attack. (timesofisrael.com) (bssnews.net) That detail matters because cluster munitions do not explode as a single warhead. They scatter smaller explosives across a wide area, which the International Committee of the Red Cross says raises the risk to civilians in towns and cities. (icrc.org) Human Rights Watch said on March 29 that Iran had repeatedly used cluster munitions delivered by ballistic missiles against Israel since February 28. The group said at least four civilians had already been killed in those strikes. (hrw.org) Israel’s emergency services said the April 1 barrage set off sirens across central Israel, and early reports from that morning described the 11-year-old girl in serious or critical condition. (timesofisrael.com) (bssnews.net) Karadi’s death turned a mass-casualty strike from the eve of Passover into a fatality count that kept rising weeks later, after the initial barrage had passed. (jns.org) (msn.com) The case also put a name and age to Israel’s claim that Iranian missile fire has hit civilian neighborhoods, not only military targets. Israeli officials have used recent strike sites in cities including Arad and Dimona to press that argument abroad. (embassies.gov.il) (gov.il) For now, the clearest verified facts are narrow and grim: an April 1 strike in Bnei Brak wounded 14 people, and one of them, 11-year-old Nesya Karadi, died on April 25. (bssnews.net) (jns.org)
