A 16-year-old girl was lightly wounded by gunfire Friday night in the settlement of Kochav Yaakov, north of Jerusalem.
Walla news reported the girl was sleeping in a sukka (small hut) as is traditional on the Sukkot holiday, when she was apparently hit by a stray bullet, whose origin was unknown.
The girls was evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital with a wounded leg.
Security forces scoured the area and determined that the cause was likely stray gunfire from a nearby Palestinian village.
On Thursday an Israeli couple in their 30s, Eitam and Naama Henkin, were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a West Bank terror attack.
The two were ambushed while driving with their four children between the settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh, near Nablus, by two Palestinians who opened fire with a handgun and a rifle. Both parents were struck multiple times in their upper bodies, paramedics said, and were pronounced dead at the scene. The children, aged 9, 7, 4 and four months, were unharmed. The attackers remain at large.
