Mother gives birth day after brutal attack in Samaria

Nechama Leah Aviner, a resident of Yitzhar who was nine months pregnant and was injured in a stone attack on the Gilad-Samaria road, gave birth to a healthy boy a day after the attack.

Aviner, who was on her way from Yitzhar to Havat Gilad on Tuesday night, was stoned at close range by Arab terrorists from the village of Burin, and hit in the face by shards of glass that flew in all directions. From the delivery room, she recounted the moments of the attack, which miraculously did not end in disaster, and attacked the incompetence of the security establishment.

"It happened suddenly without any warning," Aviner recalled the moments of horror. I was driving with a friend from the village in the direction of Havat Gilad and suddenly we snatched a rock into the windshield. There was a loud boom and shrapnel flew into my face and eyes. My friend managed not to lose control and we called the security forces. The fear was for the baby that God forbid he would not be hurt, and God forbid we were privileged to hug a healthy and intact son a day later."

Aviner went on to attack the policy of Samaria Brigade Commander Ariel Gonen, who she said ignores terror on the roads: "This attack ended in a miracle, but we were one step away from disaster. The fact that the roads of Samaria have become Russian roulette in recent months, and every resident who leaves the house is afraid that he will be included in the statistics today, is a direct result of the brigade commander's lax policy."

"When we stopped at the Havat Gilad junction, a senior officer came to us and assured us that now they were going to enter Burin, but in practice this has not happened to this day, and when we returned home and stopped at the site of the attack to make the blessing "Blessed is He who made a miracle for me," the soldiers who were there were busy preventing residents who had come to demonstrate from stopping the movement of Arabs on the road. This dangerous containment and the confusion of the values of the Samaria Brigade will still cost us blood, God forbid," Aviner warned.