Israeli injured in Samaria stoning

An Israeli woman was lightly injured on Sunday night by Palestinian rock-throwers near the village of Hares, located close to Ariel in Samaria.

The victim was evacuated to the hospital with minor facial injuries caused by flying shards of glass.

Several additional vehicles were damaged in the attack, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which launched a search for the assailants.

On Saturday, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who had been on their way to carry out a shooting in the “immediate future.”

PIJ operatives Ahmad Zaqarna, 21, and Tariq Abu Zayd, 25, from Qabatiya in the Jenin area, were arrested in Nablus (Shechem) with two loaded M-16 rifles, ammunition and military gear in their possession.

Questioning by Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) agents indicated that the terrorists were on their way to carry out a shooting, the statement noted, adding that the suspects’ interrogation was ongoing.

In the wake of the Jan. 6 terrorist shooting that killed three Israelis in the Arab village of al-Funduq, just west of Nablus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced that he had approved “a series of additional offensive and defensive actions in Judea and Samaria.”

The terrorists who carried out that attack, killing Rachel Cohen, 73, Aliza Rice, 70, and Israel Police Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, 35, remain at large.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called the attack “an act of war” that will be “met with a decisive response.”

“We will strike the terrorists and their dispatchers and take firm action against the localities that harbored them. Palestinian terrorism will not be tolerated, and Jewish blood will not be spilled in vain,” Katz said during a visit to the attack site…