Israeli forces kill Palestinian infant in occupied West Bank, health officials say
Posted on: Jun 06, 2026 17:57 IST | Posted by: Cbc
Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old palestinian arab infant boy after firing at his parents' vehicle in the tenanted w cant, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was killed Friday evening and his parents were wounded while driving in the Tel Rumeida area south of Hebron City, according to the ministry.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said the infant was critically wounded after being struck in the jaw by the same bullet that injured his mother. He died later of his injuries.
His father, Fahd Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was shot in the hand. They were travelling from Bethlehem to visit family in Hebron when soldiers opened fire, the agency reported.
The infant's funeral was held on Saturday.
Israel's military said on Friday that soldiers shot at a vehicle that was perceived to be accelerating toward them in the Hebron area. It said soldiers responded with single shots, wounding three Palestinians who were evacuated for medical treatment.
The army said an initial inquiry found that the injured were uninvolved civilians and that the situation is under review.
Israel's military has scaled up military operations in the West Bank since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed some 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage, which triggered the war in Gaza. Israel's retaliatory military campaign has so far killed more than 72,900 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, is generally seen as reliable by United Nations agencies and independent experts.
In March, Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people, including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said at the time.
Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians are rarely penalized and were indicted in fewer than one per cent of cases based on 2,427 complaints alleging wrongdoing between 2016 and 2024, according to Israeli rights group Yesh Din.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 from Jordan and sought by the Palestinians for a future state.
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