A two-month-old baby and her mother were wounded on Thursday when Arabs stoned their car as they drove along a Samaria highway. A four-year-old girl who was also in the vehicle was unhurt.
The woman who was hurt was driving with her two young children on a highway bypassing the city of Shechem. As they approached the Yitzhar junction near the often-hostile village of Hawara, a group of Arabs threw a large rock. The rock slammed into the car, shattering the windshield.
The mother suffered head wounds, and her baby daughter was hit by shards of glass. The two were treated at the scene by Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics and evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva. The mother was released after treatment and went to stay at her baby daughter's bedside.
While most rock attacks fail to cause injury, such attacks have caused serious injury and even death on multiple occasions. In 2001, five-month-old Yehuda Shoham was hit in the head by a rock and killed when Arabs targeted his parent's car as they approached their hometown of Shilo in Samaria.
Earlier this week a 16-year-old Jewish youth was seriously wounded when Arabs in Hevron threw a large rock at him from a building, hitting him in the head and shattering his skull. The young man underwent a long and complicated surgery and remains hospitalized.