The mother of two Israeli sisters who were killed last week in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank has died of her wounds, hospital officials said on Monday. Lucy Dee, 48, succumbed to her wounds, Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital said in a statement.
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Maia and Rina Dee, 20 and 15, who were also British citizens, were killed on Friday when their car was shot at by a suspected Palestinian terrorist while driving in the Jordan Valley. Their mother was in the car with them and was critically wounded.
Israeli forces are still trying to track down the assailant down.
Rabbi Leo Dee, the father, and husband, spoke to the press on Monday and asked Israelis to come together, saying how a missed call he received from one of his daughters would "haunt" him.
"I called Lucy, no answer. I called Maia, no answer. I called Rina, no answer. Then I saw a missed call from Maia at 10:52. I hadn't noticed it ring, I had not picked up the phone. The feeling that she called me during the attack and I wasn't able to speak to her will come back and haunt me for a while," Dee said.
"All world religions believe that we have the power to differentiate between good and evil so that we can choose to do good. And if we choose to do good then we make the world into a better place. I am saddened that recently, maybe over the past 20 years of my life, this innate ability to differentiate between good and evil has been gradually lost from humanity. That's why I wish to designate today, April 10 as Dees Day. The day we Differentiate between good and evil, right and wrong. And how do we differentiate between good and evil? We use our gut feeling. There's no better formula. We can't trust an app, we can't trust the news, we can only trust our intuitions." He then added, "Let the Israeli flag today send out a message to humanity which is: We will never accept terror as legitimate. We will never blame the murder on the victims. There is no such thing as moral equivalence between terrorist and victim. The terrorist is always bad."
In a separate part of the West Bank, thousands of Israelis, including government ministers, marched towards Evyatar waving Israeli flags and chanting religious slogans and songs as a Palestinian counter-protest was held nearby. The Palestinian Red Crescent said 191 Palestinians were injured by Israeli security forces.
"Now they understand why I have been pushing for the establishment of a national guard," far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said at the demonstration.
Ben-Gvir, a hardline Jewish settler, joined Netanyahu's coalition with an expanded law-and-order portfolio including a beefed-up national guard for use mainly in crime- and rioting-hit Arab communities.
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