A 22-year-old woman who was hit by a rock two weeks ago near the West Bank village of Dahariya died yesterday at Hadassah Medical Center. Esther Ohana of Beit Shean was a passenger in a military vehicle when a rock thrown through the windshield hit her in the head. She was rushed to the hospital where she underwent brain surgery, but the doctors could not save her. Dahariya village, on the Beersheba-Hebron highway, has been under curfew for the past two weeks.
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