The PB had supported a Church resolution deploring and lamenting Israel's occupation of 4.4 million Palestinians with its stifling policies of restricted movement, arbitrary arrests and detentions, house demolitions, uprooting of agricultural land, the building of illegal Jewish settlements, the construction of a barrier on Palestinian land, and the blockade and control of Gaza, undermining Israel's credibility in the eyes of the international community as Israel denies the civil and human rights of the Palestinian people to live in security and freedom from oppression.

The PB was assigning blame to Israel for the 2014 Gaza conflict, asserting negotiations were "scuttled by the Israeli settler movement and the Likud government's acquiescence," when the rocket fell. There was no mention of Hamas.

The resolution called for a policy of selective divestment or a "No Buy" policy "of any holdings in Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola Solutions until such time that the conflict is resolved through a just outcome for Palestinians and all Israelis or that these companies should take action to disinvest from their involvement in the Occupation."

The resolution specifically encouraged Episcopalians to boycott products manufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, singling out kitchen appliance maker Soda Stream by name.

A Soda Stream fountain was found among the wreckage of the rocket attack.

An Israeli government spokesman said the government was saddened by her death and blamed it on a jamming of Israel's Iron Dome Defense System, which may have been hacked by China.

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