JERUSALEM: Israel’s Shin Bet security service said yesterday it had arrested five Palestinian teenagers on suspicion of involvement in a stone-throwing attack which critically injured an Israeli toddler.
The domestic security agency said the suspects, aged 16-17, confessed to stoning vehicles driven by Israeli settlers near the Palestinian village of Haris, in the northern West Bank, on March 14.
Seven Israelis were wounded on that day, including a woman from the Yakir settlement who lost control of her vehicle and ploughed into the back of a parked lorry with her three young daughters, the agency said in a statement.
“The driver and two of the daughters were moderately injured, and a third daughter, about three years, old was critically injured and remains hospitalized today,” said a military statement.
Israel arrests West Bank teens over stone attack on car
