Three Israelis were lightly wounded on Tuesday morning in a terrorist attack near Shavei Shomron in Samaria, some six miles northwest of Nablus.
The victims, males aged 15, 16 and 32, were wounded by shards of glass after their vehicle came under fire. They were treated on the scene before being evacuated to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.
Israel Defense Forces soldiers launched a manhunt for the assailants.
A report was received at 06:31 of 3 injured people on the road between Shavei Shomron and Enav. MDA teams are treating 3 mildly injured casualties with glass shrapnel wounds, including a 32 year old male, 16 year old male and 15 year old male, and evacuated them to Meir Hospital. pic.twitter.com/RlTNqHUwAF
— Magen David Adom (@Mdais) July 16, 2024
Overnight Monday, three additional Israelis were wounded when IDF troops operating near Beit El fired on a suspicious vehicle.
An 18-year-old man was hit in the shoulder and evacuated to the hospital in light to moderate condition.
A 17-year-old and a 24-year-old were lightly injured by glass shards.
“After a preliminary probe, it is clear that the shooting was carried out accidentally at an Israeli vehicle. The incident is being investigated,” according to the military.
On Sunday, Israeli security forces thwarted a stabbing at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Judea city of Hebron.
The suspect, a 37-year-old Palestinian woman who had come to the site with her two children, aroused security guards’ suspicion when she refused to open her bag during a routine inspection.
“During the search of the bag, a police officer noticed a knife hidden inside a T-shirt,” according to a police statement. “The suspect (37) was arrested along with one of her sons; the other son was detained.”
Following her arrest, the suspect confessed that she is married to a Hamas terrorist serving time in an Israeli prison and that she had intended to stab officers protecting Judaism’s second-holiest site.
Also Sunday, four IDF soldiers were wounded, including two seriously, in a vehicular assault near the central Israeli city of Lod.
The assailant, 26-year-old Muhammad Shahab from the Kafr Aqab neighborhood of northeastern Jerusalem, was neutralized by Border Police officers.
(JNS)
