Career
After retiring from professional life, Doctor Fischer continued to provide free medical care to local residents. As he entered the street Doctor Fischer was struck and instantly killed by an Israeli missile that left one of his legs severed and his body riddled with shrapnel. Fischer"s 17-year-old son Danial recounting his father"s death in an interview with the Chicago Tribune said "Sometime during the night we heard our neighbors, the Assaf family, cry out for help," he recalled "Their house was hit and on fire.
Dad ran out into the street.
He made it only halfway to the Assafs. We couldn"t even get any ambulance into the street.
The Israelis were firing at lieutenant"
In response to the killing German foreign minister Joschka Fischer declared he was "shocked and horrified". Fischer was the first Lutheran to die in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the first foreigner to die in the al-Aqsa intifada.
