A baby delivered prematurely after his mother was shot in a terror attack on Sunday has died, the hospital where he was being treated said on Wednesday.
21-year-old Shira Ish-Ran, who was 30 weeks pregnant at the time, was seriously wounded in the attack on Sunday, when terrorists in a passing car opened fire at Israeli civilians waiting at a bus stop and hitchhiking post outside the settlement of Ofra. Doctors prematurely delivered the infant in an emergency C-section hours later
Seven people were injured in all, including Ish-Ran’s husband, Amichai, who was moderately hurt.
British Ambassador to Israel, H.E. David Quarrey condemned the attack: “Desperately sad news about the passing of the son of Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran. Our thoughts are with them at this terrible time. We utterly condemn the act of terrorism that took their child”.
A spokesperson for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said: “With great sorrow we announce the death of Shira and Amichai’s newborn four days after the attack despite the efforts of doctors at the neonatal intensive care unit to save him”
On Thursday the Hamas terror group declared responsibility for the shooting attack. The terror group wrote on its official Twitter account: “Hamas announces with great pride the death of its martyr Salih Omar Barghouti, the perpetrator of the heroic Ofra operation”.
Barghouti, 29, a resident of Kobar, a village near Ramallah, was killed on Wednesday evening as a result of trying to attack troops while escaping arrest and was shot. Barghouti is from a family with widespread terrorist links, including a father and uncle who were convicted of murdering an Israeli soldier in 1978. Nael Barghouti, his uncle, is one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s history.
