Local official on terror killing of pregnant woman en route to delivery room: ‘They were driving to the happiest moment’

By AP and ToI Staff 15 May 2025, 1:16 pm

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Tzeela Gez, who was killed in a West Bank terror shooting on the night of May 14, 2025 (Facebook, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Meital Ben Yosef, head of the Bruchin settlement’s local council, tells Army Radio that Tzeela Gez, 30, a resident of the community who was killed in a shooting attack yesterday, was “all mother. A mother in her essence.”

A Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israeli vehicles last night in the northern West Bank, shooting Gez, who was en route to a hospital to deliver her baby, along with her husband.

During efforts to save Gez’s life, doctors performed an emergency C-section to deliver her baby. The newborn boy — the couple’s fourth child — is in serious but stable condition.

“A couple of parents were driving to the happiest moment that a parent can experience and the wife is killed on the way. It’s a horrific incident,” Ben Yosef says.