Five people have received life-saving surgery after a British-Israeli mother was shot dead alongside her two daughters in a shooting in the West Bank.
Lucy Dee, 48, died three days after her daughters, Rina, 15, and Maia, 20, were shot and killed on April 7.
Her surviving daughter met with Lital, a 51-year-old woman who received Mrs Dee’s heart, at the hospital where the life-saving transplant happened three weeks ago.
She is seen getting emotional as she holds a stethoscope to the woman’s chest and hears her departed mother’s heart beat one more time.
Lucy’s husband, Rabbi Leo Dee, told the Times of Israel that the family made the decision to donate her organs because “everything... that is lifesaving should be given”.
Israel’s National Transplant Center said a 58-year-old woman got one of her lungs, a 25-year-old man received her liver, and a 58-year-old man and a 39-year-old man got her kidneys in successful surgeries.
Hundreds of mourners attended Lucy’s funeral held at the Kfar Etzion settlement south of Jerusalem.
Describing his wife, the rabbi said: “She was someone who gave. That was really her defining feature and because she gave, she encouraged other people to give. The kids picked up from that and they’ve learnt to give.”
He said Maia had been volunteering in a school in the south of Israel, working as a counsellor to children in the ninth grade.
Mr Dee said his daughters were killed by 20 bullets from a Kalashnikov rifle and his wife was shot twice in the suspected Palestinian shooting.
Mr Dee said he does not hold any hatred towards the Palestinian terrorists believed to be responsible for the attack.
He said: “I don’t hold any hate towards them. The Israeli security forces will do what they usually do which is track them down and bring them to justice, which I think is right because it prevents the next attack that they might do.”
