JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 6-year-old Israeli girl from the chareidi community of Tel Tziyon was wounded on Shabbos after being struck by bullets while playing outside her home. The bullets were apparently stray bullets fired from the neighboring Arab town of Qalandiya near Ramallah.
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The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the girl, Bracha Sulam, was playing in the yard at home when she was hit by the bullets, moderately wounding her. Paramedics took her to a Jerusalem hospital where she was later reported in light-to-moderate condition, fully conscious and stable.
The IDF is investigating the incident.
Bracha’s mother Yael described the harrowing incident on channel 12: “I was at home like every Shabbat. I have three children. Friends of the middle girl, an eight-year-old, came to call her to play. A short time later the six-year-old lost a tooth and wanted to show her sister so I let her go out. Suddenly I saw the older one dragging her sister and crying, with Bracha bleeding.”
At first Yael didn’t understand what had happened. “We lifted her skirt and saw that she had a hole in her leg. I cried: ‘What happened? What happened? But they didn’t know or see anything, they just heard a boom and she fell on the floor. I thought somebody had hit her, I didn’t imagine this could happen. I picked up her clothes and saw another hole in her body.”
Yael ran to get help. A local EMT started treating Bracha and she was transferred to hospital.”
“My daughter feels better Baruch Hashem. She says she heard a boom and something entered her stomach. She is very scared, she doesn’t know how to explain what happened.
“It’s incomprehensible that they continue to shoot towards our community, many times we find bullets on the floor. It’s unthinkable that police and the IDF don’t deal with this, it causes a lack of security. My daughter doesn’t want to go to the park any more, we are frightened.
“I could have lost Bracha. Somebody needs to deal with this since it is extremely stressing, we feel insecure. How can we go to the park? I think its a miracle she’s alive, the bullet could have hit anywhere.”
The Israel Defense Forces said the girl appeared to have been wounded by a stray bullet coming from the direction of Qalandiya near Ramallah, north of Jerusalem.
The military added it was further looking into the matter.
The incident came after the Defense Ministry said guards at a West Bank crossing foiled a planned stabbing attack earlier Saturday; it also followed an attempted attack in the northern West Bank Friday night, when an Israeli security vehicle came under fire.
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Stray???
“Stray bullet”? Is that like a “stray dog”, one that just wanders around with a mind of its own?
Sorry, but if 2 bullets hit the same person, that doesn’t seem very “stray” to me.
It’s like saying, “2 stray airplanes hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001”.
If the neighboring Muslim community control what goes on in their neighborhoods, if that community does not put to death the perpetrators the entire community should be destroyed immediately as this community does not deserve to continue.
This will teach other Muslim communities to behave decently , or you will be destroyed.
And there we will rebuild thriving Torah Jewish communities.
Glad she’s okay, B”H.
Rav Shach forbade living in the territories as hisgarus gasa baUmos haOlam.
So, how could this settlement be called “chareidi”, especially with large Arab areas adjacent or otherwise very close?