Doctors at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod, southern Israel, struggled in vain for a week to keep nine-year-old Tamar Tropiashvili alive. He lost consciousness during a bomb attack on his city with a volley of Hamas rockets. When the sirens sounded, she entered the protected room of the apartment with her mother and a dog and closed the armored door. She had also armed herself with a stick and a knife to feel safer as her father was at work at the time. In fact, there were rumors that Hamas terrorists were roaming the streets of Ashdod. But when the alarm went silent, the mother heard a gasp. The daughter lay unconscious on the floor and could no longer breathe.
Paramedics from Magen David Adom, synonymous with the Red Cross, managed to revive her after half an hour of efforts. But in the end, even the hospital stay wasn’t enough to keep her alive. Yesterday she was buried in the city cemetery.
“She had never suffered from any illness, she was perfectly healthy,” explained her parents during the funeral, who are now tormented: “We had no idea how enormous her fear was.” After October 7th, in the face of the terrible massacres Hamas and the narratives that came with it, “the children of Israel were in shock,” said father Avi Tropiashvili. Tamar herself had started hiding a knife under her pillow, without her parents knowing at the time.
The affair shocked public opinion in Israel. The father then wanted to send a message to all parents: “Listen carefully to your children, talk to them.” Many do not know how to express their fears and keep them in their little hearts, which can even give in. A moment is enough.” . There was no need for a rocket, a rocket or a bullet for Tamar. All it took was a whistle to strike fear into the soul and shake the spaces of these little hearts. “That was enough for Hamas to steal,” he concluded.
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