Killing of Yehuda Shoham

Killing of Yehuda Shoham
Part of the Second Intifada
Killing of Yehuda Shoham is located in the Central West Bank
Killing of Yehuda Shoham
The location of Eli, West Bank
LocationEli, West Bank
Date5 June 2001; 23 years ago (2001-06-05)
Attack type
Stoning attack
WeaponsLarge rock
DeathsYehuda Shoham
PerpetratorsUnknown

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]

  1. ^ "Yehuda Shoham // In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel". mfa.gov.il. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  2. ^ "The Deadly Reality of Palestinian Rock Throwing". Israel Defense Forces. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Caught in the cross fire". The Washington Times. Associated Press. 11 September 2002. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  4. ^ Lefkovits, Etgar (7 June 2001). "'It's as if we've been abandoned'". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  5. ^ Reeves, Phil (12 June 2001). "Settlers' baby dies after Palestinian stoning". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference sevareid was invoked but never defined (see the help page).