GIRL KILLED BY PALI ROCKET WHILE PROTECTING BROTHER

Girl wounded in Sderot dies
A teen-aged girl who shielded her brother from a rocket attack in Sderot died of her wounds. Ella Abuksis, 17, died Friday at a Beersheba hospital. She threw herself atop her 10 year-old brother Tamir on Jan. 15 when a rocket launched by Gaza Strip terrorists landed in the southern Israel city. Tamir also suffered shrapnel wounds in the attack.