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Israeli Rock Attack Victims Tell TheBlaze About the Moment a Stone Came Crashing Through a Car Window and Broke a 13-Year-Old’s Nose

Jan. 17, 2013 7:31am Sharona Schwartz

Israeli Rock Attack Victims Tell TheBlaze About Their Frightening Experience

Palestinian rock attack smashed the windshield of Israeli’s car (Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesman)

Thirteen-year-old Noam Melamed got out of school early Wednesday and hitched a ride home with a neighbor instead of taking the usual bus ride home. Little did he know how fateful a decision that would be.

Shortly before pulling into the Jewish settlement named Tekoa, where he lives, the driver of the car turned the bend of the Arab village with the same name and met a dramatic, rock-throwing ambush by Palestinian youths.

As the car passed through the barrage, a large rock flew into the car, breaking the windshield and hitting the eighth grader – who was sitting in the front passenger seat – straight in the face. His mother tells TheBlaze that Noam passed out, sustained a broken nose, and his upper lip was sliced straight through.

TheBlaze contacted Ariel Wreschner, the driver, who tells us about the frightening experience:

Palestinian youths were waiting on the side of the road. I already saw large rocks on the road that were probably thrown at other cars earlier in day. They looked around 14 years old and they were just waiting for us. A rock flew into the car and broke the windshield. Somehow I kept driving and called an ambulance to wait for us at the gate.

We bent down and kept driving. We knew we couldn’t stop. He said, “I got hurt, I’m bleeding”…I tried somehow to get out of there.

Israeli residents of Tekoa tell TheBlaze that Palestinian students launch numerous rocks at Israeli vehicles passing their school on the main road every day. Wreschner says: “It was totally planned. They waited for us. And they did it a few times before. It feels like you are a duck in a shooting gallery.”

Noam Melamed’s nose was broken and lip sliced by rock that smashed through windshield (Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesman)

Wreschner tells TheBlaze he bought his car only two weeks ago and did not yet have an opportunity to install reinforced, protective windows. Those windows are installed by many Jews who live in communities in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, due to the high incidence of Palestinian rock-throwing attacks, some of which have been fatal.

Sarit Melamed, the injured boy’s mother, says the rock-throwing takes place at precisely the same time every day – before school begins and when school lets out. In between those times, the Palestinian youths are in their classes.

She was not in the car, but tells us what her son told her about his experience:

Two Arabs waited for them. There were already rocks on the road; therefore, they knew other cars had been targeted. Noam was next to (the) driver, and the rock hit the windshield and his face directly.

The driver got to (Israeli) Tekoa, and security forces and ambulances arrived and brought him to the hospital. I got a message (at work) that he was wounded and a friend took me to the hospital. Noam was very frightened and in pain, but very present and alert about what had happened.

“Rocks kill,” says the boy’s mother (Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesman)

The driver’s wife, Oranit Wreschner, tells TheBlaze:

When I heard this happened, I began to think that it could have happened to me or my baby girl. A big rock was thrown at our car. It could kill a baby easily. We drive on this road all the time. If the army isn’t in the village they always throw stones. Always.

Kill a baby is exactly what one Palestinian rock attack did two years ago, after the car of 25-year-old Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan was targeted. That barrage was so intense, it caused their car to overturn on a highway near the Israeli settlement Kiryat Arba, killing them both.

Noam’s mother says that despite the frightening experience, she believes Arabs and Jews can find a way to live as neighbors in peace. She says:

I don’t want to continue the energy of conflict and hatred. I was once of the belief you need a strong hand to respond, get back at them, and I saw that the only thing hatred brings is more hatred…fear brings fear and love brings love. I don’t believe these things will change in only one day. The Arabs are fed hatred from when they are young (but) I truly believe a mother wants to raise her son for good no matter if she’s Jewish or Arab.

There’s been a sharp rise in rock-throwing incidents. Authorities estimate that about 1,000 occur every month, according to Israel’s Channel 10 News (Hebrew link).

Noam’s mother told Channel 10: “After school, kids need to go and play, not try to kill each other. Rocks kill. I believe we can live as neighbors without hatred.”

Her son echoes her optimism, adding: “I believe we can join together and live together.”

This Hebrew report from Channel 10 includes more aftermath photos from Tekoa and file footage of similar rock attacks:

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Comments (37)

gingerbread
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:16pm
I remember when Ariel Sharon was still a colonel. Every night, the muslims used to invade Israeli kibutzes and do all kinds of damage. He gathered a group of ISRAELI commandos, and attacked muslim neighborhoods, every night and exact revenge. Guess what, finally the muslims sued for peace This is what Israel must do. They must go tit for tat. The muslims throw stones at Israeli cars, then the Israelis must return the favor. They must throw stones at muslim cars and civilians and muslim companies. Then and only then will these muslims realise that it’s not a good idea to throw stones at Israeli civilians

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sbenard
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:21pm
This exact event occurred to me when I was living in Colombia! A mob attacked a car I was riding in and threw a brick threw the windshield. Many of the same types of events I experienced in S American countries are now beginning to occur in the US. Trouble — BIG trouble — is coming!

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MCLOVINIT
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 11:26am
The Ragheads don’t like the Israelies because they’re white and more intelligent.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:58pm
When these muslims start this crapp over here they are going to be in for a surprise. obama is stockpiling these people in cells across the Country. obama intends to do a muslim uriel boatlift, using his middle east ‘crisis’ as justification for ‘political asylum’. These “refugees/aka terrorists” will then train and lead these cells. Wake up people.

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pavepaws
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:44pm
A crossbow should slow the thugs down.

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bankerpapaw
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:42am
How did that happen? The Mooselums are a peaceful people.

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Atrocities
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:17am
I hope he will be ok.

Liberals would say that it was HIS fault that he got a rock in the face and would laugh about it. I hate the fact that most liberals are blind to reality and are so willing to accept violence against Jews. In fact I find it utterly repugnant that the left wing media is so blatantly bias that they ignore the facts and blame Israel for all the violence.

It sickens me that children are the victims of this violence. They will grow up to be adults who hate and that is always, always sad.

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j97862
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:20am
They know that the neighborhood is hostile, so why drive through it? It doesn’t make sense to me. It almost seems like a provocation rather than a “we were just minding our own business” moment.

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- Face...Palm
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:00am
  you are an idiot.
  
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- mzk1
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:53am
  Because it’s the road home, you idot!
  
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- pdw
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:04am
  Funny how people who do not know anything seem to love to tell others how to live. Israel is a dangerous country no matter where you live because of all the hate that is supported by our government because they have their hands in the pockets of the Arab countries.
  
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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:55pm
  How do you drive to your home? Do you avoid the street you live on, because it would instigate violence in your neighborhood? Would you really drive down a street where enraged men were throwing large rocks through windshields, for a bit of fun? Please think like a rational adult, not a liberal.
  
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AUsername
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:12am
bring guns and this won’t be a problem.

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- mzk1
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:54am
  They have guns. They can’t use them. If they do the entire world will come screaming.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:03am
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This is where you bring a gun to a rock fight, or a Big A$$ 4×4 with a giant brush guard and play Speed Bump with the little darlings………

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- mzk1
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:56am
  And if we do that the world will be down our throats. Don’t you ubnderstand that Jewish blood is, and always had ben, cheap? We thought getting our own country would change things, but the people who tohught this idiotically thought it was the unnatural postition of the Jews that caused it, rather than simple bigotry. We are now “like all of the nations”, and it only serves as a focus for the hate.
  
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- stopprintn
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:01pm
  We on the american right are behind the jewish people. We are sorry to have this leftist POTUS in power. So this may not be the time. But one day they will have to be pushed right into the sea. Hate and self defense I believe are two seperate things. The hate is not going to go away so what else can be done ? I could not live being under assult on a daily basis.
  
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Grand design
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:01am
The Arabs don’t want to co-exist with anyone other than those of their own tribe! These attacks will continue with no end in sight! The only way to stop the rock throwing attacks is to eliminate the rock throwers!

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cdn1979
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:52am
so the kid lives in a settlement by the same name as the palestinian village? You mean the settlement was built on top of a larger palestinian village, on STOLEN land. I hope the kid is OK. he deserves none of this. but its not like a helicopter gun ship unloaded on a car or an F-16 bombed the car or dropped white phospherous munitions on the car or blocked the kid from getting needed food and medicine. Those kids should not have thrown rocks. you can’t stop violence with more violence. but what do you expect. every once in a while the bully will get punched square in the nose.

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- Armyof One
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:58am
  How can they steal land that has always been Israel?
  
  Please tell us all when the state or country of Palestine was founded, and what was the capitol city, and when did the Israelis defeat the Palestinian Army and “steal” the land?
  
  Ignorant fool.
  
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- mzk1
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:01am
  Um, if you open the Bible you will find the Tekoa is an old Jewish city. Israeli settlements, of which no new ones have been built in a long time, are built on unused land, as per the Palestinian Mandate, in which such land is to be used for “close Jewish settlement” as per the League of Nations.
  
  In fact, A town named Migron was just destroyed on the order of the (insane) Israeli Supreme Court becuase there was a (highly questionable) claim that the land belonged to Arabs.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:21am
  Define “stolen land”. All of the Jewish neighborhoods constructed were built on either unowned land or, in rare cases, on land purchased from previous owners. Then of course people like you come along and demand that Israel hand over the homes and businesses that they built for themselves without receiving due compensation from the recipients. You want to talk about stolen land, let’s talk about how Israelis were forcibly evicted from Gaza and their homes handed over to people that seek their annihilation. And for what purpose? Because certain Palestinians are unwilling to tolerate Jews living amongst them so of course we should create a region entirely free from Jews.
  
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- ofass
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:08pm
  I think this video is perfect for ignorants like our Anti-Semitic colleague:
  
  http://israelhas.blogspot.ca/2011/07/blog-post_20.html
  
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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Please read a history book. You have swallowed every bit of biased bovine excrement the libs dished up for you. READ A HISTORY BOOK. Please.
  
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mopman64
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:40am
Que The_Jerk in 3..2..1.. Good Morning to The_Jerk. Can’t wait for you to tell us how this Jewish boy deserved what he got. Oh and don’t forget about the part where you say that this is the only way these good Jew loving Palestinian children have to defend themselves. Or maybe you will tell us that this was all staged by the Palestinian hating Jews.

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- ofass
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:16pm
  He may not reply due to bad internet connection in Gaza…..
  
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zoro51
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:36am
murdering muslums in a MAN MADE CULT of HATE N DEATH still worshping BAAL disguised as allah… ALL of the land of ISREAL belongs to ISREAL not ishmeal..

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jackact
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:58am
Don’t fear Israel, Andrew Cuomo is preparing legislation to ‘confiscate’ rocks of all sizes and sorts.
Assault rocks especially.

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Gonzo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:54am
Obama recommended to Bibi that all rocks should be in a national database.

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The-Monk
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:45am
Is anyone else having issues with the new “submit button” and posting?

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- Zipit
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:12am
  The CDC should be directed to conduct a study on rock violence in Israel! It is I disease ya know!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:16am
  Hi Zipit,
  
  They could do a 24 hour study and call it “Rock around the clock”….
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:28am
  Sorry Monk! I actually meant to respond to Gonzo, but “rock around the clock” BWA! It could be used by the Palestinian Authority as a call to arms!!!
  
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ares338
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:44am
Isn’t it grand? These 14 year old model citizens belong to the “Religion of Peace.” Rock throwing is actually part of their curriculum.

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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:05pm
  Extra Credit.
  
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bushido
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:41am
The right thing To here is Chase down this little bastard Palestinians that have no respect for life due to their inbred parenting cut off the tips of their noses and send them back home crying to their parents!

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- bikerdogred1
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:51am
  You do not cut the tip of their nose,what is wrong with you you cut the tip of the other thing off and then maybe they can not imbreed any more,alright maybe a little more then the tip.
  
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