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HEBRON, West Bank (AP) \u2014 Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby boy after firing at his parents\u2019 vehicle in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said the baby was critically wounded after being struck in the face by the same bullet that injured his mother. He later died of his injuries. His father, Fahd Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was shot in the hand. They were traveling from Bethlehem to visit family in Hebron when soldiers opened fire, the agency reported.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s 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 people hostage, which triggered the war in Gaza. Israel\u2019s retaliatory military campaign has so far killed more than 72,900 Palestinians, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, is generally seen as reliable by United Nations agencies and independent experts. <\/p>\n

The United Nations said last month that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since the war began, at least 240 of them children. Forty-nine people have been killed since the start of this year, it said.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said Friday an initial inquiry found that the injured were uninvolved civilians and said the situation is under review. It also said 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.<\/p>\n

At Al-Ahly Hospital in Hebron, the baby\u2019s father told Associated Press reporters that a bullet struck the car\u2019s windshield before piercing his hand, then his son and wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt entered the child\u2019s face on the right side and exited on the left, then passed directly into his mother\u2019s face and exited on the other side, with shrapnel lodged near her heart,\u201d Abu Haikal said.<\/p>\n

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The mother is in critical condition because there\u2019s shrapnel close to her heart, he said. They haven\u2019t told her yet that her son, who turned seven months old on Friday, was killed.<\/p>\n

The baby\u2019s grandmother, Feryal Abu Heikal, was in the car during the shooting and said they were driving near a checkpoint and stopped when they saw Israeli military vehicles and soldiers in the distance. As the forces fired at them, she initially thought it was warning shots before they were struck, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scene was horrific to see a seven-month-old baby with a smashed face,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat kind of army in the world does this? \u2026 What happened to my grandson can\u2019t be easily forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n

The baby\u2019s funeral is expected later Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Health Ministry said at the time.<\/p>\n

Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians are rarely penalized and were indicted in fewer than 1% of cases based on 2,427 complaints alleging wrongdoing between 2016 and 2024, according to Israeli rights group Yesh Din.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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\u2014<\/p>\n

Magdy reported from Cairo, Egypt and Mednick reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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