A Jewish Jordan Valley medic rushed to treat an Arab teenager in need of medical care - a rock-throwing terrorist who had attacked her 13-year-old son. The attack occurred several days ago, but was not reported until this week. “Even if I had known ahead of time that that the injured youth wounded my son, I would have treated him, because that is our obligation,” Shdemot Mehola resident Orit Ohana told the Hebrew-language newspaper Yisrael HaYom . The medic said she often treats Arabs as part of her voluntary job with the Magen David Adom emergency medical service (Israeli Red Cross). ”When I reached the scene, on the Jordan Valley road [Highway 90], I found the Arab suffering from deep cuts in his hands,” Ohana said. “It was obvious, by the presence of policemen in the area, that he was involved in a failed criminal or terrorist incident.” While the medic was treating him, a neighbor named Nissim Veturi arrived and told her, “The wounded person you are treating threw rocks at my car in which your son Itamar was a passenger a short time ago.” Veturi added, “Luckily, the rock only cracked the window, which did not shatter. Itamar was sitting next to the window, and you can imagine what would have happened if the rock had broken it.” Itamar was on his way to the yeshiva high school in nearby Beit She'an. The medic responded, “Despite the anger I felt at that moment, I continued to treat the man as I am supposed to do.” She said that during the Sabbath after the incident, she thought about the miracle that her son was not wounded. A police investigation determined that the attacker took out his anger on Jews after an argument with his father. Following the rock attack, he fled to a nearby field, where he suffered wounds from foreign objects or thorns, and he returned to Highway 90 to ask for medical help. Rock-throwing attacks are frequent in the area, as well as in all of Judea and Samaria, but Israeli mainstream media usually do not report them unless there are serious injuries, leaving the impression that the Palestinian Authority has halted violence against Israelis.
