18-Year-Old Killed, Brother Wounded in Samaria Ramming Attack
"We will never be broken": Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan responds to the tragic death of 18-year-old Yehuda Sherman in a car-ramming attack near Homesh earlier today.
An 18-year-old Israeli youth was killed and his brother was moderately wounded on Saturday afternoon in a car-ramming attack near the community of Homesh in northern Samaria.
The victim has been identified as Yehuda Shmuel Sherman. He is survived by his parents, Yehoshua and Sima, and six siblings.
The attack occurred while three Israelis were conducting a land survey near Homesh. According to eyewitness accounts, a Palestinian vehicle arriving from the direction of the village of Beit Umrin identified the group, waited, and then accelerated significantly toward them.
The force of the impact threw two of the individuals from a height. Medical teams were called to the scene, but Yehuda Sherman was eventually pronounced dead. His brother remains in moderate condition.
Yossi Dagan, head of the Shomron Regional Council, arrived at the scene on Shabbat to brief security officials and speak with the survivors.
"This is a very difficult event. We embrace and strengthen the families," Dagan said Saturday evening. "We are facing a murderous and barbaric enemy whose goal is to murder Jews and drive them from their land. I say clearly: we will never be broken. We will only grow stronger and continue to build the northern Shomron and all of the Land of Israel."