Rachel Yisraelov, the mother of the soldier who was killed in a training accident earlier this week, criticized the IDF's actions and blamed the commanders for not evacuating her son to the hospital in time.
"They murdered him in a training accident," she said. "A minute before he told them that it wasn't safe - did anyone listen to him? A friend who sits with him at meals shot him."
"Two days earlier, he told me that there would be a helicopter there so that if G-d forbid people were injured, they could fly them to Soroka. There was nothing, nothing. He was killed on the spot. I don't buy the bull****, they could have flown him in a helicopter and saved his life."
Yisraelov stressed, "He did not take a bullet to the head. With proper and appropriate treatment at the right time my son would [still] be here with me, I would have received him wounded, I would have taken care of him."
Initial investigations show that Yisraelov was killed while serving as a security flag-bearer, and shot at a distance of 250 meters.
He had been placed at the edge of the force, and his job was to serve as a sign for the force that they should cease firing the moment he was identified moving in the dark with a flashlight.
The IDF is now examining the force's fitness and its fulfillment of safety instructions, as well as whether the force was skilled enough to conduct the exercise.