Israel Arrests West Bank Teens over Stone Attack on Car

Israel's Shin Bet security service said on Sunday it had arrested five Palestinian teenagers on suspicion of involvement in a stone-throwing attack which critically injured an Israeli toddler.

The domestic security agency said the suspects, aged 16-17, confessed to stoning vehicles driven by Israeli settlers near the Palestinian village of Haris, in the northern West Bank, on March 14.

Seven Israelis were wounded on that day, including a woman from the Yakir settlement who lost control of her vehicle and ploughed into the back of a parked lorry with her three young daughters, the agency said in a statement.

"The driver and two of the daughters were moderately injured, and a third daughter, about three years, old was critically injured and remains hospitalized today," said a military statement, also released on Sunday.