The Media Line: Infant Delivered After Mother’s Murder in Terror Shooting Succumbs to Wounds 

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Infant Delivered After Mother’s Murder in Terror Shooting Succumbs to Wounds 

By The Media Line Staff 

The infant son of Tzeela Gez, who was fatally shot in a drive-by attack in the northern West Bank on May 14, died Thursday morning in an Israeli hospital after two weeks in critical condition. The shooting occurred as Tzeela and her husband, Hananel Gez, were driving to the hospital near their home in the Bruchin settlement to deliver the baby. The assailant, a Palestinian gunman later killed by Israeli forces, opened fire on their vehicle. 

Doctors at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva delivered the baby by emergency C-section shortly after the attack. He was named Ravid Haim. 

Meital Ben Yosef, leader of the Bruchin settlement, said the community was grieving. “A baby who was supposed to be born and enter the world with great joy and great expectations took his last breath this morning after teetering between life and death since the day he was born exactly two weeks ago,” she said. 

She added that the settlement would continue to build and would “make it clear to all our enemies that we are here in the inheritance of our ancestors and will remain here forever.” 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his condolences in a statement, writing, “There are no words that can console over the murder of a newborn baby together with his mother.” 

Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, demanded a stronger government response to the attack. “The world should be shocked,” he said, calling for military action and the demolition of unauthorized Palestinian homes near the site of the attack.