The owner of two poodles seriously injured in an Iranian missile attack on Saturday is appealing for donations to help with major surgery costs, which are not covered by the state.

Danielle Haroush, 33, was working at her job as a store assistant in the southern resort town of Eilat over the weekend, while her cousin, Ben Avital, was looking after the dogs, named Tsili and Gili.

When sirens went off warning of an incoming missile, Avital rushed home with the dogs, but was unable to make it to the bomb shelter in time.

A parking lot next to his home was one of three sites hit by submunitions from a cluster bomb missile.

Avital, who sustained two broken ankles and missile fragments between his eyes and was still hospitalized on Monday, managed to pull Tsili, the female dog, from the rubble. Tsili tore a ligament in her leg and is already recovering at home from surgery, according to Haroush’s sister, Inbal Habari.

Gili, the male, had to be extracted from deeper under the rubble. He broke both back legs and his pelvis and will........

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