Nine-Year-Old Girl Shot in Terror Attack
She was playing in the yard when a bullet hit her in the neck. A terrorist shot her from close range.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 10/5/2013, 9:47 PM / Last Update: 10/6/2013, 4:35 AM
A nine-year-old girl was seriously wounded in the neck Saturday evening in a shooting attack by one or more terrorists at Psagot, in the Binyamin region.
Yoni Hacohen, a paramedic, told Arutz Sheva that she had been hit by a bullet that went clear through her neck.
According to initial reports, the girl had been playing in the yard of her house and may have been hit by sniper fire.
David Tzviel, Spokesman for Psagot, said that the terrorist entered the yard where the girl had been playing. She said he had worn a balaclava.
There were other indications of a possible infiltration by terrorists, including a break in the protective fence, which did not show up on the electronic monitoring installed by the Defense Ministry. These reports led to a lockdown of the residents.
Security forces continue to search for the terrorist or terrorists and are looking into the possibility that a vehicle was waiting for them and picked them up after they carried out the attack.
IDF forces in Psagot Hagit Laloum
Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) responded to the attack and said: “We have returned to a reality in which talks with the Palestinians equal murderous terror attacks. This reality must not continue! I demand that the prime minister bring back to the government, for renewed discussion, the decision to release terrorists, and that the IDF be allowed to take tough action against the murderous terror that is raising its head again.”
IDF soldier First Sergeant Gal Kobi was shot dead by a sniper in Hevron less than two weeks ago. Two days earlier, Sergeant Tomer Hazan wasabducted and murdered.
Fatah’s armed branch, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, issued a statement in early September in which it announced that it would give the green light to terrorist attacks targeting Israelis.
The reason given for the planned resumption of open hostilities was Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, which the group termed, “The invasion of the compound by hordes of settlers, and the harm to [Muslim] worshipers, with no intervention from the international community.”
The statement, issued just before Yom Kippur, called on all "sleeper cells" to prepare for a confrontation with the "Israeli occupation."
Wounded girl brought to hospital Flash 90
IDF in Psagot Yehuda Amrani
IDF Near Psagot Flash 90