Emmanuel Shiloh, editor of the Besheva newspaper, was injured Monday night after a rock hurled by a terrorist struck his head.
The rock attack, which left Shiloh with light injuries, was perpetrated by a terrorist as Shiloh and his wife Idit traveled on the Gilad road.
Shiloh continued traveling until he reached the entrance to Havat Gilad, where he received initial medical treatment from Magen David Adom, which evacuated him to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.
In a post he published from the hospital, Shiloh wrote, "Good morning from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. I was brought here last night in an ambulance. I was injured by a rock which an evil Arab terrorist threw at the vehicle in which my wife and I were traveling, as we drove home from the engagement celebration of friends in Yitzhar."
"I don't exactly remember the details, but my dear and brave wife, who was driving with me and accompanied me here, says that I told her that I was hit by a rock and got hit hard, and that I continued to drive until Havat Gilad, where first IDF forces arrived and afterwards a civilian ambulance from Yitzhar, which evacuated me here."
Shiloh added, "At first it hurt a lot. Now it's less. During the night I underwent tests. There is a chance that I have a fracture in my jaw. We are waiting to hear the decision of a mouth and jaw specialist. At the end of the day it's a light injury, thank G-d. You can only imagine what would have happened, G-d forbid, had the rock hit not my check but a few centimeters higher - my temple or skull. In addition to the direct damage caused by the rock's hit, it obviously could have ended, G-d forbid, in a fatal accident. Thank the merciful and compassionate G-d that we were not given as prey for their teeth."
"In recent years, our vehicle has been hit twice from rocks hurled on Route 55 - once when I was driving and once when our daughter Emunah was driving. Both of those times were an attempted assassination which ended with damage to property. This time it caused a light injury which was just a step away from being a dangerous injury, G-d forbid.
"Hurling rocks at moving vehicles is attempted murder. That is how we need to view it," he concluded.