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| IDF: Boy, 7, lightly injured in terror shooting at West Bank settlement |
| 2019-03-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] Child taken from Beit El to nearby hospital after bullet strikes his hand; army says shots were fired from adjacent Paleostinian village. A 7-year-old Israeli boy was lightly injured Monday night, when shots were fired at the central West Bank settlement of Beit El from a nearby Paleostinian village, the IDF said. The young child was rushed to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center after sustaining a hand wound in the shooting. The army said that troops were searching the surrounding area for suspects and that the shots had come from the direction of the Paleostinian village of Dura al-Qaraa, north of Beit El. Doctors at the Jerusalem hospital said the boy was fully conscious, but would likely require surgery. Responding to the shooting, Beit El Local Council chairman Shai Alon said, "Miraculously, the injury was mild, but the incident could have ended otherwise." The settler leader called on the army to enter Jalazone, another village north of the settlement, "from which we have endured several shooting attacks." He called for troops to "restore order and settle accounts there." |
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