The remains of the late Maria Pashkorovia, 31, a Bat Yam resident who was killed in an Iranian missile strike in the city, were located after a five-day search on Thursday.
The Bat Yam Municipality announced on Thursday that a body was located at the scene of the missile strike in the city and was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine.
This is the ninth fatality in the event, which became the largest scene of destruction ever in the State of Israel from a missile strike.
Daughter was being treated for cancer
Pashkorovia lived on Jerusalem Street in the city with her mother, Olena Sokolva, and her daughter Anastasia (Nastia) Borik, 8, a student at the city's Gordon School, who was being treated at Sheba Hospital as an oncology patient.
Two of Olena's grandchildren also lived with them – 14-year-old Ilia Pashkorov and nine-year-old Konstantin Totavich.
The family arrived in Israel from Odessa, Ukraine, in December 2022 as part of Nastia's cancer treatment; they are not Jewish, nor did they have any previous connection to Israel.
President Isaac Herzog offered his condolences to Artem Borik, Nastia's father, and condemned the intentional firing of ballistic missiles into civilian apartments. "The world must condemn Iran’s indefensible crimes — and stand with Israel against Tehran's Empire of Evil."