{"id":90530,"date":"2025-11-30T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=90530"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:46:28","slug":"idf-launches-search-after-terrorist-attack-on-samaria-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/idf-launches-search-after-terrorist-attack-on-samaria-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF launches search after terrorist attack on Samaria highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<p>(<em>JNS.org<\/em><span class=\"light-weight-content\">) \u2013&nbsp;<\/span>The Israel Defense Forces launched searches on Saturday evening after a terrorist reportedly hurled an iron rod at civilian vehicles on Route 5, the Trans-Samaria Highway, shattering a windshield.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90531\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90531\" class=\"wp-image-90531 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90531\" class=\"wp-image-90531 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-29_23-06-04-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-90531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Israeli vehicle with an iron rod lodged in its windshield after a Palestinian terrorist attack on Route 5 in Samaria, Nov. 29, 2025. Credit: Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIDF forces were deployed to the Az-Zawiya area in the Ephraim Brigade following a report that a terrorist threw an iron rod at a passing vehicle,\u201d the military said. \u201cNo injuries were reported; the vehicle was damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) officers \u201care conducting searches and questioning suspects in the area in an effort to locate the attacker,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) group said the vehicle was struck near the Palestinian village of Mas-ha, located some 15 miles southwest of Nablus (Shechem) alongside Route 5.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and passengers were treated for anxiety, the NGO stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard a boom,\u201d Merav Ben-Avraham, 23, who was a passenger, told Hebrew media outlets on Saturday evening. \u201cWe saw the rod in the car, we really panicked and thought it was a terrorist attack. We continued the drive and kept our cool and called the emergency hotline. We were afraid to stop. Now I feel like I survived by miracle and like it could have easily ended differently,\u201d said Ben-Avraham.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/over-6300-terror-attacks-against-jews-in-judea-and-samaria-in-2024\/\">terrorists<\/a> targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria &#8211; the West Bank \u2013 at least 6,343 times in 2024, according to figures published by the Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) NGO on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven Israelis were murdered in Judea and Samaria in 2024, and more than 300 others were wounded, the group said in its annual report.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"IDF%20launches%20search%20after%20terrorist%20attack%20on%20Samaria%20highway\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8790,8795,3664,8788,10319,140,1215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90548,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90530\/revisions\/90548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}