Security forces continued on Sunday their investigation into the attack on a
nine-year-old girl in Psagot, near Ramallah, focusing on a hole in the security
fence that surrounds the settlement and footprints thought to be the
terrorist’s.
Investigators have yet to draw any conclusions, but the main
theory is that a Palestinian terrorist cut a hole in the fence, entered Psagot,
came across the girl playing in the yard of her home, and shot
her.
“We’re still looking at all the possible directions,” a security
source said. “We assume that the hole in the fence and the footprints are linked
to the incident.”
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is leading the
investigation, while a crime-scene investigation team from Judea and Samaria
District police collected forensic findings.
On Sunday evening, Magen
David Adom paramedics evacuated the girl, Noam Glick, from her home with a
suspected gunshot wound to the upper chest.
She told paramedics that a
man had approached her and fired a gun at her.
Shlomo Petrobar, head of
Magen David Adom’s Jerusalem District, lives in Psagot and rushed to the home
after receiving a report of an injured child, beginning medical treatment within
minutes of the attack.
Large numbers of soldiers deployed in the Psagot
area overnight to try to capture the terrorist. Soldiers found a toy gun,
initially believed to be real and linked to the attack.
The shooting
comes days after the Shin Bet released a report noting a sharp increase in
terrorist incidents in the West Bank in September.
There were 104 attacks
in Judea and Samaria last month, compared with 68 in August. Late last month,
two soldiers were killed in separate attacks.
Most of the attacks in
September took the form of firebombs.
In the West Bank and east
Jerusalem, Palestinians attacked 129 times in September – seven times with
bombs, four with small arms fire, and 117 with firebombs.
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