By: JNS Staff

An Israeli woman was lightly wounded on Tuesday night when a Palestinian terrorist targeted her family’s vehicle with a rock in central Samaria in the second such incident in 24 hours, the Israel Defense Forces said.

“A short time ago, a terrorist threw stones at an Israeli vehicle near the community of Evyatar in the Samaria Brigade [deployment area]. As a result, an Israeli civilian was lightly injured and received medical treatment on the scene,” according to the military statement.

“Security forces began searching the area for the terrorist,” it added.

According to reports, the vehicle contained four occupants, including two children, when it was targeted. A total of five rocks were reportedly used in the attack, which also damaged two vehicles.

On Monday, an Israeli baby sustained light wounds from glass shrapnel in a rock attack on the road bypassing the Samaria town of Huwara, near Nablus. The parent continued to drive, seeking medical attention at a nearby Israeli military base.

Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 6,343 times in 2024, according to figures published last month by the Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) NGO.

Twenty-seven Israelis were murdered in Judea and Samaria in 2024, and more than 300 others were wounded, the group said in its annual report.

The figures, which were cross-checked against official data from Israel’s security services, included 3,668 instances of rock-throwing, 843 attacks with Molotov cocktails, 671 attempts to blind drivers with laser pointers, 526 explosive charges, 364 cases of arson and 179 terrorist shootings.

The NGO also recorded 37 attempted or successful stabbings, 36 bottles of paint being thrown at vehicles and 19 Arab car-ramming attacks, including 12 that caused injuries to Israeli victims.

In other news, Israeli fighter jets on Monday night struck radars and other detection equipment in southern Syria, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed Tuesday morning.

Additionally, the Israeli Air Force targeted command positions and sites containing weapons belonging to the former Assad regime.

“The presence of these assets in southern Syria posed a threat to the State of Israel and IDF activities. These targets were struck in order to eliminate future threats,” according to the IDF.

Israel carried out “targeted raids” in Syria over the past week, locating, confiscating and dismantling numerous weapons, the IDF said on Saturday.

The troops are “deployed at strategic points in Syria” and will “continue operations to eliminate any threat and strengthen the defense of the State of Israel and its citizens,” the IDF added.

Last week, IAF jets attacked an Assad regime military site near Qardaha, overlooking Latakia in northwestern Syria, in response to “recent developments in the area.”

The strike targeted “a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored,” the IDF added.

Since the fall of the Iranian- and Russian-backed Assad regime on Dec. 8, Israel has taken up positions inside and beyond the Golan Heights buffer zone, including on the strategic Syrian side of Mount Hermon.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday strongly condemned atrocities in Syria allegedly committed by forces loyal to the country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. More than a thousand people were murdered in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia, according to reports.

          (JNS.org)