Terrorist gunmen opened fire Saturday evening at a Jewish couple from Har Gilo who were driving in a car south of Jerusalem. The couple escaped unhurt.
The terror ambush took place near the Arab village of Walajeh and was first reported by Arutz Sheva's Hebrew news service at around 9:00 PM. Saturday evening. After the incident, the driver kept on going and reported the incident to the authorities upon reaching the IDF's Ein Yael checkpoint.
One bullet reportedly struck the rear part of the vehicle.
Terrorists carried out a a similar ambush against a Jewish couple on a road south of Hevron in late September, just over a month ago. Netta Zucker, who was pregnant, suffered light to moderate wounds, and her husband Sharon was lightly hurt. They reached Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva by car on their own and immediately afterward, Netta gave birth to her firstborn son by Caesarean section.
In late August, four people – Yitzchak Imes, Talia Imes, Kochava Even-Hayyim and Avishai Schindler – were cruelly murdered by Arab terrorists at the Bani Nayim junction in the same area. They were all from the community of Beit Haggai. One day later, terrorists carried out a gunfire ambush at the Rimonim junction in the Binyamin area, north of Jerusalem. A Jewish couple – Moshe and Shira Moreno – suffered moderate and light wounds, respectively.
Arab terrorists routinely target Jewish civilians intentionally, but no international commission of inquiry has investigated the matter. Instead, Israel has often been investigated for its counter-terror operations.