PM condemns ‘horrific’ West Bank shooting of Israeli couple en route to hospital delivery room

By Nava Freiberg

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15 May 2025, 12:18 am

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Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the “horrific” shooting by a Palestinian terrorist on several Israeli vehicles in the West Bank this evening, which the IDF said wounded a man and his pregnant wife.

“I am deeply shocked by the horrific attack in Samaria against a woman in advanced pregnancy and her husband, as they were on their way to the delivery room,” writes Netanyahu in a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, referring to the northern West Bank where the shooting took place.

“I trust that our security forces will, in this case as in others, quickly reach the murderers and hold them and all who aided them to account,” concludes the statement.