Terror attack: 9-year-old injured from gunfire in Psagot

Israeli girl lightly wounded from gunfire while playing in yard in settlement located north of Ramallah; army suspects infiltration by terrorist from nearby Palestinian town

A nine-year-old girl was lightly injured Saturday night from gunfire while she was playing in the yard of her home in Psagot, a Jewish settlement located north of Ramallah in the West Bank. No one else was hurt in the incident. 

Paramedics who were alerted to the scene evacuated the girl, who was fully conscious, to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center. 

IDF forces suspect that a terrorist from the nearby Palestinian town of al-Bireh had infiltrated Psagot and then fled the scene. Footprints found near Psagot's security fence, as well as a hole in the fence, reinforce this assumption. Psagot's residents were instructed to remain indoors until further notice, while soldiers were going from house to house to make certain the terrorist had not remained in the community.

A motorcyclist later reported that he came under fire on a road leading to Kochav Yaakov, not far from Psagot.

Soldiers in Psagot (Photo: Gil Yohanan)

Entrance to Psagot (Photo: Gil Yohanan)

Shlomo Petrover, who lives in close proximity to the scene of the attack, said "I arrived at the house and saw the girl with gunshots in the upper part of her body. I treated her along with the community's paramedics until the ambulance arrived."

  

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Scene of attack in Psagot (Video: Avi Mandelbaum)

Girl evacuated to hospital (Photo: Amit Shabi, Yedioth Ahronoth)

Magen David Adom paramedic Yoni Cohen said the girl was "frightened, tired and in pain, but spoke all during the drive to the hospital. She was a true hero, and we told her so."

Some two weeks Staff Sergeant Gal Kobi, 20, from Tirat Carmel in northern Israel, was killed after he was shot in the neck near a checkpoint in Hebron's Cave of Patriarchs. He was rushed to Shaare Zedek in critical condition but eventually died of his wounds.