The girlfriend of Sgt. Idan Fooks, 19, watched the Hezbollah drone attack that killed him unfold in real time while she was on duty as a surveillance soldier, she said at his funeral on Monday.

Fooks was laid to rest in his hometown of Petah Tikva, one day after he was killed in southern Lebanon by a Hezbollah drone in an attack that wounded six additional soldiers. Hundreds attended the ceremony at the city’s Segula military cemetery.

At the funeral, Fook’s girlfriend, an IDF surveillance soldier identified in Hebrew media reports only by her first name, Yuval, spoke of how she had watched the attack remotely from her post.

“I’m sorry that I saw you in your last minutes,” she said, according to Hebrew media reports. “When I saw how close it all was to you, my heart thumped without knowing that it was you. Your suffering won’t leave me.”

His mother, Meital, described her son as “loved, and with a good heart,” always willing to help, and never complaining.

“No matter where you went, you conquered the hearts of those around you,” she sobbed. “Your heart was filled with good intentions.”

Fooks’s younger brother Rani, 9, asked, “When will you return home to play with me? You will always be with me in my heart,” according to a report from the Kan public broadcaster.

Earlier, Fooks’s uncle, Shlomi Arah, told the Ynet outlet how Yuval, as part of her surveillance operations, watched the deadly attack unfold.

Arah said that as Yuval saw the attack happen, she immediately feared Fooks was among those hit.

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