Couple walking their dogs ID’d as Hezbollah missile victims

Cancer survivor and pasty chef were killed by Hezbollah missile targeting residential area, along with their three dogs.

The two people killed in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona in a Hezbollah missile attack were named by Hebrew-language media on Thursday morning as Revital Yehud, 45, and Dvir Sharvit, 43.

The couple were out walking their dogs when an air raid siren sounded, and did not manage to reach a bomb shelter before the missile impacted.

The attack by Hezbollah directly targeted a residential neighborhood in Kiryat Shmona. The city was officially evacuated in October 2023, but it’s believed that a few hundred or thousand residents – including Yehud and Sharvit – chose not to leave their homes.

Yehud, originally from Eilat, had lived in Kiryat Shmona for two years. She recently recovered from cancer, according to Hebrew-language media reports.

Her boyfriend, Sharvit, was a professional pasty chef working in the Galilee region.

“We lost an amazing man who was all heart. A man who loved to help others,” said Meir Ben Shitrit, a relative of Sharvit. “We feel like we are in a bad dream, but unfortunately this is our terrible reality.”

“Our hearts are broken. We can’t believe that Revital is no longer with us,” said Yehud’s family in a media statement. “She was a woman full of good intentions.”

Her family referenced the upcoming Yom Kippur holiday, which begins this Friday.

“They say that when one’s soul returns to the Creator of the World before Yom Kippur, that person is saintly. And Revital was saintly,” the family added.

Sharvit will be buried in Kiryat Arba, while Yehud will be buried in Beer Sheva.

At around 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona. Several minutes later, the Magen David Adom ambulance service received calls from residents reporting that missiles had struck their neighborhood.

Emergency paramedics scanned the scenes near the impacts, discovering the bodies of Yehud and Sharvit.

The couple’s three dogs were also killed in the blast.

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