A 16-year-old Israeli girl was lightly wounded by gunfire Friday night in the settlement of Kochav Yaakov, north of Jerusalem.
Walla news reported the girl was sleeping in a sukka (small hut) as is traditional on the Sukkot holiday, when she was apparently hit by a stray bullet, whose origin was unknown.
The girl was evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital with a wounded leg.
Security forces scoured the area and determined that the cause was likely stray gunfire from a nearby Palestinian village.
On Thursday an Israeli couple in their 30s, Eitam and Naama Henkin, were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a West Bank terror attack.
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The two were ambushed while driving with their four children between the settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh, near Nablus, by two Palestinians who opened fire with a handgun and a rifle. Both parents were struck multiple times in their upper bodies, paramedics said, and were pronounced dead at the scene. The children, aged 9, 7, 4 and four months, were unharmed. The attackers remain at large.
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