{"id":542245,"date":"2026-07-15T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:32:09","slug":"israeli-lightly-wounded-in-palestinian-rock-throwing-assault-in-samaria-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542245\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli lightly wounded in Palestinian rock-throwing assault in Samaria &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (July 15, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>An Israeli civilian was lightly wounded in a Palestinian rock-throwing attack on Route 60 in the Binyamin region of Samaria on Wednesday morning, military and medical officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA short while ago, IDF soldiers were dispatched to the area of Ma\u2019ale Levona following a report regarding terrorists that were hurling rocks toward Israeli vehicles driving on a central route in the area,\u201d the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Route 60, the main north-south highway in Judea and Samaria, runs past schools in the Arab village of Sinjil for about 0.6 miles. Rock-throwing attacks in the area have again surged in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the rock hurling, one Israeli civilian was injured and evacuated to the hospital to receive medical treatment, and two vehicles were damaged,\u201d the military stated.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF said its troops had begun searching for the terrorists and that the nearby Palestinian village of Sinjil had been \u201ctemporarily encircled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom emergency service identified the victim as a 62-year-old woman. Paramedics treated her at the scene and evacuated her to Jerusalem\u2019s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 5,051 times in 2025, according to figures published by the Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) NGO.<\/p>\n<p>The figures do not include the hundreds of violent attacks on Israeli security personnel occurring during ongoing counter-terrorism operations in Arab towns under the control of the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four Israelis were murdered in Judea and Samaria in 2025, and more than 400 others were wounded, per the group\u2019s annual report.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which were cross-checked against official data from Israeli security agencies, included 3,299 instances of rock-throwing, 655 attempts to blind drivers with laser pointers, 458 firebomb attacks, 286 attacks involving explosives and 19 shootings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 15, 2026 \/ JNS) An Israeli civilian was lightly wounded in a Palestinian rock-throwing attack on Route&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-542245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}