Magen David Adom updated Saturday evening that a 25-year-old man was moderately wounded with a head injury in a stone-throwing incident at the Susya junction in the South Hebron Hills. He was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
Magen David Adom confirmed at 19:36 Jerusalem that the moderate injury reported earlier at the Susya junction was caused by stone-throwing, and that the victim is a 25-year-old man with a head injury, who was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center. The clarification comes after a cascade of conflicting reports throughout the evening.
The Zioneer first reported the incident at 19:34 Jerusalem, citing an initial MDA report of a moderate injury in a "violence incident" without specifying the cause. That report followed a series of updates from 19:14 Jerusalem in which the IDF initially reported gunfire, later described a weapon snatch and a farm owner injured, and then settled on a moderate injury from a violence incident. The thread shows that earlier reports of a shooting attack with one wounded were corrected to a weapon snatch with no injuries, then to a farm owner injured in a struggle, and finally to the moderate injury report. The source quality evolved from unconfirmed media reports to IDF confirmations, and now to a specific MDA statement.
The Susya junction is located in the South Hebron Hills, an area that has seen periodic stone-throwing incidents. As The Zioneer reported on July 24, a 28-year-old man was lightly wounded in a stone-throwing incident near Havat Gilad in Samaria. The IDF has not reported any arrests in connection with tonight's incident.
The circumstances of the stone-throwing attack remain under investigation. No suspects have been identified, and the victim's identity has not been released beyond his age and injury.
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