Father of Fallen Soldier: 'My House Is Destroyed, Life Is Gone'

Amnon Sulem, the father of Sergeant Yuval Shi Sulem, who was killed in a shooting attack near Hebron on Friday, described the devastating impact on his family. "We are finished, we are dead. The whole family. My house is completely broken. I have a house, but there is no life in it," he said on Sunday during an interview on Kan News radio.

Sulem recounted the horrific moment his daughter received the news of Yuval's death. "Friday was hell. When they come to your house and knock on your door. My daughter received them. The news. They informed us 'come home.' I heard through the media and understood my son was injured. Through the car radio, not in any other way. I tried to call him, and he didn't answer."

He appealed to the army to expel the families of the terrorists responsible for the attack. "I asked them for one request: that their families, first-degree relatives, not be able to eat baklava. We don't want them here. We ask the state, the army, to gather them from here and remove them from the country. They are not staying in the country! We will fight for this, we will not give up. They destroyed my house, broke my house. They took all our souls. This is not just Yuval, or the second soldier. A home was destroyed here, a whole circle was destroyed. An entire area was ruined."

Sulem also shared memories of his son, describing him as a "good kid" who was eager to serve in the military and had been training rigorously for combat roles. He recalled their last conversation on Saturday night, noting Yuval's dedication even when exhausted, as he would attend synagogue services regularly.