Killing of Yehuda Shoham | |
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Part of the Second Intifada | |
Location | Eli, West Bank |
Date | 5 June 2001 |
Attack type | Stoning attack |
Weapons | Large rock |
Deaths | Yehuda Shoham |
Perpetrators | Unknown |
The killing of Yehuda Shoham occurred on 5 June 2001 as the result of a stoning attack attributed to Palestinians on a civilian vehicle, from the Israeli settlement of Shilo, in which five-month-old American-Israeli Yehuda Shoham was seated. Rocks crashed through the car's windscreen and crushed the infant's skull. Shoham died of severe brain damage on 11 June 2001.[1][2]
This stoning attack and the infant's death, six days later, made headlines in Israel.[3][4][5] Both incidents were part of a Second Intifada that started in September, 2000 and by 12 June 2001 had claimed the lives of 489 Palestinians and 109 Israelis.[6]
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