Body of Indian killed in Hezbollah attack in Israel on way to India
The Hindu
Flight carrying mortal remains of Indian worker killed in Israel by Hezbollah missile departs for India.
The flight carrying the mortal remains of an Indian worker, Patnibin Maxwell, killed by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon left on Thursday, March 7, 2024 evening for India, official sources said.
Maxwell, 30, was from Kollam in Kerala.
Israel's Minister of Interior, Moshe Arbel, Director General of Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA), officials from the Israeli Foreign Ministry and senior diplomats from the Indian embassy on Thursday evening attended a memorial send-off ceremony.
"A high-level delegation from @IsraelMFA, Ministry of Agriculture, led by Minister of Interior, Moshe Arbel, and his senior team, went to pay respects to Patnibin Maxwell-The Indian national who was killed by Hezbollah rocket while working on a farm. Om Shanti," Naor Gilon, Ambassador of Israel to India, posted on X.
The remains were sent aboard Air India flight AI 140 for Delhi and from there will be sent to Trivandrum on Air India flight AI 801 scheduled for 15:00 hours India time on Friday.
Maxwell was killed when an anti-tank missile hit a plantation in Margaliot, a Moshav (collective agricultural community), in the Galilee region in the north of Israel at around 11 am on March 4.
His mortal remains were identified in Ziv Hospital.
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