At least three vehicles were damaged on Saturday evening near the Gilad road in Samaria when Palestinian assailants threw stones — and apparently a paint bottle — from a nearby olive grove. The attack occurred on a route where the IDF has long refrained from uprooting the groves despite repeated similar incidents.
A coordinated stone-throwing attack targeted Israeli vehicles on the Gilad road in Samaria on Saturday evening, striking and damaging at least three vehicles. According to eyewitness accounts cited by a single source, Palestinian assailants threw stones — and apparently a paint bottle — from a nearby olive grove adjoining the road. None of the damaged vehicles were reported to have sustained casualties. The source noted that the IDF has for years refrained from uprooting the groves despite their repeated use by attackers to hurl stones and Molotov cocktails, and called for a change in policy. As of this report, no immediate IDF response has been reported.
The incident is the latest in a sustained series of attacks on Israeli vehicles on West Bank routes. As The Zioneer reported earlier on Saturday evening, another vehicle was struck by stones near Hawara at around 22:36 (Jerusalem), with no IDF response reported. Separately on the same route, a gunfire attack earlier on Saturday — at approximately 22:28 — struck a vehicle traveling between the Rock Outpost and the small Hawara junction, causing damage but no casualties. The route has seen multiple stone and Molotov cocktail attacks in recent weeks, including incidents near Al-Khadr and the Gush Etzion area.
What remains open: no official IDF or military source has confirmed the attack or any response actions. The single source reporting this incident provides no on-record attribution beyond civilian eyewitness accounts.
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