Soldier attacked with acid may lose eye

[Behind the Aegis]

An IDF soldier may lose sight in one of his eyes after a Palestinian woman threw acid in his face on Monday as she tried crossing the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus.

The IDF said the woman threw an acidic substance in the face of the soldier, who was guarding the checkpoint. The soldier was hospitalized with light-to-moderate wounds and doctors said there was a chance that he would lose sight in one of his eyes.

The woman, identified as a 19-year-old resident of Nablus, was behind a similar attack earlier in the month when she threw acid in the face of an officer at the checkpoint but succeeded in fleeing back into Nablus. On Monday she was captured and taken into police custody.

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Meanwhile Monday, the IDF revealed that the Palestinian terrorist who was killed on Saturday as he tried infiltrating Yitzhar with a Molotov cocktail was the same terrorist who infiltrated the settlement a week earlier and stabbed a nine-year-old boy.

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