Baby lightly injured in West Bank rock-throwing attack
Army carrying out searches as one-year-old taken to hospital with cuts from broken glass after bus comes under attack
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent.
A bus that was struck by rocks and glass bottles full of paint as it traveled from Jerusalem to Ma'ale Adumim on September 16, 2016. (Screen capture: Israel Police)
A one-year-old baby was lightly wounded on Sunday when Palestinians threw rocks at a bus he was traveling in with his mother in the West Bank
The attack took place near the Karmei Tzur settlement in the southern West Bank, near Hebron, the Magen David Adom said.
Fragments of glass cut the baby’s arm and he was taken by ambulance to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for care, the medical service said.
The army said it was aware of the incident and troops had been deployed to locate the rock throwers.
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