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Toddler Injured in 2013 Rock Attack Buried

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Four-year-old Adele Biton was laid to rest Wednesday, nearly two years after being critically injured in a rock attack on her family's car in March 2013. Her mother and two of her sisters were also injured, but much less seriously.

The cause of death was pneumonia, but the rock attack, which caused the car to swerve and hit an oncoming truck, compounded her injuries and severely compromised her health. For two years her parents worked closely with Israel's finest pediatricians trying to save her life.

At her funeral under cloudy winter skies and intermittent rain in the small Samarian community of Yakir, her grieving mom, Adva, said, "Adele, even the sky is crying over you," Jerusalem Post correspondent Tovah Lazeroth reported after attending the funeral.

Though her parents didn't receive official permission to bury their daughter in Yakir, the place of her birth near the city of Ariel, they decided not to wait on bureaucracy.

"We are burying you here in Yakir, in the place where you were born," her mother said during the service. "We are burying you here close to us. We are burying you here so we can shout out loud that Judea and Samaria and all the land in Israel belong to us and will stay with us."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later expressed the heart of the Israeli people to the toddler's grandmother, Rachel.

"We are all weeping with you. We all embrace you. May the love of the people give you the strength for new lives," he said.

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