Bullet apparently came from nearby Palestinian Authority city of Ramallah.
By Ben Rappaport, United with Israel staff
Avigayil, the 9-year-old girl who on Friday was wounded by a stray bullet as she played with friends in front of a building in the community of Kochav Yaakov in Israel’s Binyamin region, has been released from the hospital and is resting at home, her father, Shimon, told Israel’s Channel 12.
Shimon explained that his daughter “saw that she had blood coming from her shoulder and holes in her dress and body, and she ran home.”
She was “playing at the entrance of the building with friends, when suddenly she felt something fall on her,” he elaborated. “She didn’t understand what it was.”
“She saw she had holes in her dress and body and understood it wasn’t an injury and that something had penetrated her body. She was taken immediately to the medical clinic, and after the doctor checked her he said it was apparently a bullet and that she should go immediately to the hospital, since there was an entry wound but no exit wound.”
“At that time, I was at the synagogue; I arrived only after she had been taken for medical treatment.”
After being checked at the local medical clinic, Avigayil was taken to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem with a penetrating wound to her upper body.
“She has been released from the hospital, thank God, and now she is resting at home,” Shimon added.
While residents were initially instructed by IDF Home Front Command to remain in their homes due to the possibility that terrorists had infiltrated the community, the incident was later decided to be the result of a stray bullet, apparently from the nearby Palestinian Authority city of Ramallah.
The incident, which took place on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, came shortly after a civilian security guard managed to shoot and kill a terrorist who slid under the security gate of the community of Teneh Omarim in the Hebron area and was approaching the local synagogue armed with a knife.
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