Slain couple buried Sunday afternoon
By Margot Dudkevitch -- Jerusalem Post
Sunday, February 29, 2004 Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov, 27, were buried Sunday afternoon at 3:30 PM in the new Beersheba cemetary.
The two were gunned down
by terrorists as they drove on the Hebron-Beersheba road between Eshkolot and Sansana near the Green Line on Friday night.
Gunmen ambushed them from the roadside, then approached the vehicle, continuing to shoot the couple to ensure they were dead before fleeing to a waiting car and back into the West Bank, said police.
RIma and Eitan are survived by their two-year-old daughter, Michelle.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the murders, saying two gunmen were involved in the attack. A statement issued by the PFLP said the attack was a response to Israel's "massacre" of the Palestinian people, and vowed to continue attacks in Israel.
Kukoi and Novikov, who lived in Livna-Shani, a settlement near the Green Line, were on their way to a birthday party in Ashdod. They had left their daughter at home with her grandmother. (...)
Police said scores of Kalashnikov cartridge cases were found at the scene. Shalom Tobin, security head at the nearby Kibbutz Lahav, said the car was sprayed with bullets. "It was a terrible sight. It was clear they were shot at point-blank range," he said. (...)
Kukoi's sister, Tassia Levine, who also lives in Livna-Shani said she heard of the shooting on the radio, and when the color of the car was described and that a couple was shot, she feared the worst. "I prayed and prayed that it wasn't them," she said. (...)
The couple were to celebrate their daughter's second birthday this week. "She knows something is wrong, she feels it. During the night she called out for her mother and father." Levine said she and her husband plan to adopt Michelle....
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