Doctors reportedly delivered the baby, whose condition isn’t publicly known.
JNS Staff Report
May 14, 2025
The Israeli military is hunting for a terrorist who shot and injured two Israelis, a pregnant woman and her husband, as they drove to the delivery room near the small community of Bruchin, in Samaria, the Israel Defense Forces stated.
The baby was delivered in hospital, Ynet reported, but the baby’s condition wasn’t publicly known. The Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital had stated on Wednesday night that its medical teams were fighting in the trauma room to save the life of the woman and the baby.
“I am deeply shocked by the horrific attack in Samaria, targeting a heavily pregnant woman and her husband as they were on their way to the delivery room,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.
“This vile act precisely reflects the difference between us — those who cherish and bring life — and the despicable terrorists whose very purpose is to kill us and cut lives short,” the prime minister said.
“I trust that our security forces, as in previous cases, will swiftly reach the murderers and hold them and anyone who aided them accountable,” Netanyahu said.
The Yesha Council stated in Hebrew that it is “shocked and saddened by the terrible attack in Samaria and embrace the family at this difficult time.”
“The only way to prevent such serious attacks is to turn the city centers and villages, from which the murderers emerge, into ruins,” the council said. “We have been warning about this for a long time.”
“If the army continues to invest enormous efforts to capture a lone terrorist or a weapons cache and does not change the security perception on the ground, the State of Israel and its citizens will continue to be in danger,” the council added. “We are supporting the Minister of Defense in quickly changing the security perception.”
The Magen David Adom emergency service stated around 10 p.m. that its emergency medical technicians and paramedics were treating a woman in her 30s in critical condition. They evacuated a man, variously reported to be in his 30s or 40s, in serious condition with gunshot wounds to the hospital, Magen David Adom said.
The emergency service said that the shooting took place on route 446, between Bruchin and Peduel. The area is some 10 miles east of Petah Tikva and about the same distance northeast of Ben Gurion Airport.
According to an English translation of an Arabic post, the Hamas terror group lauded the shooting, which it called “heroic.”
