{"id":147689,"date":"2026-06-06T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/147689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:39:13","slug":"israeli-troops-kill-7-month-old-palestinian-baby-in-west-bank-car-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/147689\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli troops kill 7-month-old Palestinian baby in West Bank car shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israeli<\/a> troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby boy after firing at his parents\u2019 vehicle in the occupied West Bank, the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/palestinian-territories?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Palestinian<\/a> health ministry said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was killed on Friday evening, and his parents were wounded while driving in the Tel Rumeida area south of Hebron City, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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 later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His father, Fahd Abdul Aziz 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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The infant\u2019s funeral is expected later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Israeli soldiers take position during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9b5c22ff-dd31-4c4f-8757-a052f279c19e_e7f25151.jpg\" title=\"Israeli soldiers take position during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday. Photo: EPA\"\/>Israeli soldiers take position during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel\u2019s military said on Friday that soldiers shot at a vehicle that was perceived to be accelerating towards them in the Hebron area. It said soldiers responded with single shots, wounding three Palestinians who were evacuated for medical treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby boy after firing at his parents\u2019 vehicle in the occupied West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[25373,47779,496,47777,1411,45206,47775,37,2412,654,47774,7888,47776,47778,6905],"class_list":["post-147689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-university","tag-gaza","tag-gazas-health-ministry","tag-hamas","tag-hebron","tag-hebron-city","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-jordan","tag-october-hamas-attack","tag-palestinian","tag-palestinian-authoritys-health-ministry","tag-tel-rumeida","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116702030471111429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}