An Indian citizen was killed and two others were injured after being hit by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon at around 11 am on Monday in an orchard near Margaliot on Israel’s northern border.
Patnibin Maxwell, a resident of Kollam in Kerala, died in the attack. Bush Joseph George and Paul Melvin were also injured in the incident and have been admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Now Patnibin Maxwell’s father has made a big allegation against Israel. He alleged that Israel did not allow his son to go to the safe zone.
Patanibin, 31, was working in Galilee, northern Israel. A day earlier, he told his father on phone that the poultry farm where he was working in Margaliot was no longer safe.
A few hours later he died in a missile attack. Patnibin’s father revealed that a similar cross-border attack had taken place in the same area two weeks earlier and had advised his son to move to a safer area. “My son could not go to the safe zone because his sponsor did not allow him to go,” he said.
Maxwell’s father said that his elder son informed him of the death of his younger son. The father told a TV channel, “My elder son called me on Monday evening around 4.30 pm and told me that Maxwell was injured in the attack and has been admitted to the hospital.
Later, at about quarter to one in the night, he told me that my younger son had died.” He also said that Maxwell has a four and a half year old daughter and his wife is pregnant.
He said, “Maxwell was first in Muscat and Dubai and then returned here. After this he went to Israel. First, my elder son went there and after a week my younger son also went there.”
Maxwell’s father also said that according to his elder son, it will take four days to bring Maxwell’s body to Kerala as some formalities and paperwork have to be completed.
Zaki Heller, a spokesman for the rescue service Magen David Adom (MDA), said a missile hit a plantation in the Galilee region in Israel’s north at around 11 a.m. on Monday.
The attack is believed to have been carried out by Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group, which has been attacking northern Israel with rockets, missiles and drones since October 8 in support of Hamas amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.