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Filipina Killed in Haifa Missile Strike Was the Family's Daughter-in-Law, Not Their Caretaker

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0300

Lucille-Jane Gershevitz, a 29-year-old Filipina who moved to Israel to be with the man she loved, was killed on Saturday night alongside her husband Dima (42), and his parents Vladimir (73) and Lena (68), when an Iranian ballistic missile struck their residential building in Haifa, causing three floors to collapse.

Thai Worker Chaiwat Waewnil Killed in Iranian Missile Strike at Moshav Adanim

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:00:00 +0300

Chaiwat Waewnil, a 30-year-old Thai agricultural worker from Chaiyaphum Province, was killed shortly before midnight on Wednesday, 18 March 2026, by shrapnel from an Iranian cluster-munition missile at Moshav Adanim in central Israel’s Sharon region. He had been working at a potato farm (Ozer Farm), roughly 12 kilometres from Herzliya, and is survived by his wife and young child in Thailand. He is the first Thai national killed since the Iran-Israel conflict escalated with Operation Roaring Lion on 28 February.

Filipina Caregiver Mary Anne de Vera Killed in Iranian Missile Strike on Tel Aviv

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:58:00 +0300

Mary Anne Velasquez de Vera, a 32-year-old Filipina caregiver from Basista, Pangasinan, has been identified as the first person killed in Israel during Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes on February 28, 2026. She was pregnant with her first child. She was killed while helping her elderly patient reach a bomb shelter — choosing to stay with the woman she cared for rather than flee to safety alone.