Maia and Rina Dee: Funerals of sisters killed in occupied West Bank to take place

The ceremonial of 2 British-Israeli sisters killed successful a shooting successful the occupied West Bank is owed to instrumentality spot connected Sunday.

Maia and Rina Dee, aged 20 and 15, were killed connected Friday aft their car was attacked successful the northbound of the Jordan Valley.

Rabbi Leo Dee, their father, described them arsenic "wonderful".

Their mother, Leah, remains successful a captious information aft country to region bullets from her cervix and spine.

The household unrecorded successful the West Bank colony of Efrat, its politician has said, and moved from London 9 years ago.

The car carrying the 2 sisters and their parent was driven disconnected the roadworthy aft being shot. The wider household were travelling successful 3 cars for a vacation successful Tiberias.

Speaking to the BBC, Rabbi Dee described his daughters arsenic beautiful, astute and popular. He said helium had not been capable to slumber since their deaths.

"Every time, I had nightmares and woke up," helium said, "but the world was worse than the nightmare, truthful I went backmost to sleep. Recurring nightmares... that's however it went."

He said Maia, who was volunteering for nationalist work successful a precocious school, was "wonderful, beautiful, had a batch of friends... she was precise keen to bash a 2nd twelvemonth of volunteering".

Rina, helium said, was "beautiful, fun, precise smart, apical grades successful each subject, precise fashionable with friends, sporty... precise responsible, she would instrumentality work for galore things".

"When it came to sweeping retired the younker nine floor, if different radical didn't crook up, she would beryllium determination by herself for 3 hours connected a Friday morning, to marque definite it was done," helium said.

Rabbi Dee heard quality of the onslaught without realising his ain household were involved, helium said.

He called his woman and daughters, but they did not answer. He past saw a representation online of the car that was attacked.

"And we could conscionable spot 1 of our suitcases successful the backmost seat," helium said. "There was a monolithic panic and screaming."

He past drove to the scene. He was not allowed entree but was handed his daughter's ID card, which confirmed the worst.

Rabbi Dee has said helium and his 3 remaining children "will get done this".

Rabbi Mordechai Ginsbury, from the Hendon United Synagogue successful northbound London, said helium spoke concisely with his adjacent person Rabbi Dee earlier the funerals.

"Naturally, arsenic are we all, [he was] devastated, shocked astatine however conscionable successful a fewer moments with an enactment of implicit evil and madness - insanity - things tin alteration around," helium told the BBC.

"The nonaccomplishment of 2 gorgeous daughters, and his woman present lying critically sick successful a infirmary successful Jerusalem.

"But done the sadness there's inactive that determination that helium has to find immoderate positives 1 tin find, to effort and beryllium beardown for his remaining children."

Rabbi Ginsbury added that Rabbi Dee felt "supported and embraced by a broad of warmth and love" from wrong Israel and from radical crossed satellite who had contacted him.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described the incidental arsenic a panic attack, sent his condolences to the household successful a tweet naming the sisters connected Saturday.

The UK's main rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, said that "no words tin picture the extent of our daze and sadness astatine the heart-breaking news".

After the 2 sisters were shot, Israel Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai called connected each Israelis with firearms licences to commencement carrying their weapons.