It's just standard procedure on the part of foreign settlers who are simply obeying Yahweh's biblical commandments to kill every man, woman, child and animal. No big deal. It's all in the garbage torah-old testament. The most moral army in the world cannot be challenged on following standard barbarian procedures.
The British crooks who started this entire charade of the colonial "return to the promised land" are "shocked and saddened" by the incident.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian baby in the West Bank: Health ministry
CBS/AP
Sat, June 6, 2026
How archaeology turns political in the West Bank 11:37
Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby boy after firing at his parents' vehicle in the occupied West Bank, 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 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.
Photos from the Associated Press show that the baby's carseat was behind the driver's seat of the vehicle. Photos also show damage, including at least one bullet hole, in the car's windshield.
A man inspects the damaged family vehicle of seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, onSaturday, June 6, 2026. / Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP
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 people 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.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told CBS News that soldiers "perceived a vehicle accelerating toward them" in the Hebron area. A soldier responded by firing single shots, the spokesperson said. The statement said three Palestinians were injured and evacuated for medical treatment, but did not confirm the age or gender of any of the injured.
An initial inquiry "found that those injured were uninvolved civilians," the IDF spokesperson said, adding that the incident is under review and that the IDF "expresses deep sorrow for any harm caused to uninvolved individuals."
At Al-Ahly Hospital in Hebron, the baby's father told Associated Press reporters that a bullet struck the car's windshield before piercing his hand, then his son and wife.
"It entered the child's face on the right side and exited on the left, then passed directly into his mother's face and exited on the other side, with shrapnel lodged near her heart," Abu Haikal said.
Fahd Abu Haikal, 41 displays a mobile photo of his seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam. / Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP
The mother is in critical condition because there's shrapnel close to her heart, he said. They haven't told her yet that her son, who turned seven months old on Friday, was killed.
The baby's 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.
"The scene was horrific to see a seven-month-old baby with a smashed face," she said. "What kind of army in the world does this? ... What happened to my grandson can't be easily forgotten."
The baby's funeral is expected later Saturday.
The British consulate in Jerusalem said it was "shocked and saddened" by the incident, saying on social media that it was calling for an "immediate and transparent investigation and accountability" and that "civilians must be protected."
Child care bag of seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. / Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP
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, according to the U.N. Forty-nine people have been killed since the start of 2026, it said.
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 1% 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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Israeli soldiers shoot and kill 7-month-old Palestinian baby in West Bank
Abeer Salman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN
Sat, June 6, 2026
Fahd Abu Haikal, 41 displays a mobile photo of his seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam, who was killed on Friday by Israeli soldiers who fired at the vehicle carrying him and his parents, in Tel Rumeida, at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron Saturday, June 6, 2026. - Mahmoud Illean/AP
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 7-month-old Palestinian baby boy in the occupied West Bank on Friday and wounded his parents, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Sam Fahd Abu Haykal was in a car with his parents when an Israeli soldier opened fire at the vehicle near the city of Hebron, the ministry said. The gunfire killed Haykal and injured both of his parents.
The boy's grandmother, Firyal Abu Haykal, told Reuters that one bullet struck their car, killing the baby. "The incident is unbelievable and unacceptable," she told Reuters. "We are being harmed just because we decided to stay at our homes."
Father and brother of Sam Abu Haykal, a 7-month-old Palestinian child who was killed by Israeli soldiers, carry his body during his funeral in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2026. - Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
A bullet hole in the front window of a car of Palestinian father Fahed Abu Haykal after his seven-month-old baby was killed by Israeli forces, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026. - Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that soldiers "perceived" a vehicle accelerating toward them. A soldier fired a single shot at the vehicle, the IDF said, acknowledging that those injured were "uninvolved civilians."
The IDF said the incident is under review.
Such incidents have occurred before. In March, four members of the same Palestinian family, including two boys aged 5 and 7, who were out on a late-night drive after breaking the daily Ramadan fast, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Palestinian officials reported.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Israeli soldiers shoot and kill 7-month-old Palestinian baby in West Bank
Abeer Salman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN
Sat, June 6, 2026
Fahd Abu Haikal, 41 displays a mobile photo of his seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam, who was killed on Friday by Israeli soldiers who fired at the vehicle carrying him and his parents, in Tel Rumeida, at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron Saturday, June 6, 2026. - Mahmoud Illean/AP
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 7-month-old Palestinian baby boy in the occupied West Bank on Friday and wounded his parents, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Sam Fahd Abu Haykal was in a car with his parents when an Israeli soldier opened fire at the vehicle near the city of Hebron, the ministry said. The gunfire killed Haykal and injured both of his parents.
The boy's grandmother, Firyal Abu Haykal, told Reuters that one bullet struck their car, killing the baby. "The incident is unbelievable and unacceptable," she told Reuters. "We are being harmed just because we decided to stay at our homes."
Father and brother of Sam Abu Haykal, a 7-month-old Palestinian child who was killed by Israeli soldiers, carry his body during his funeral in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2026. - Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
A bullet hole in the front window of a car of Palestinian father Fahed Abu Haykal after his seven-month-old baby was killed by Israeli forces, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026. - Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that soldiers "perceived" a vehicle accelerating toward them. A soldier fired a single shot at the vehicle, the IDF said, acknowledging that those injured were "uninvolved civilians."
The IDF said the incident is under review.
Such incidents have occurred before. In March, four members of the same Palestinian family, including two boys aged 5 and 7, who were out on a late-night drive after breaking the daily Ramadan fast, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Palestinian officials reported.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian baby in the West Bank: Health ministry
CBS/AP
Sat, June 6, 2026
How archaeology turns political in the West Bank 11:37
Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby boy after firing at his parents' vehicle in the occupied West Bank, 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 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.
Photos from the Associated Press show that the baby's carseat was behind the driver's seat of the vehicle. Photos also show damage, including at least one bullet hole, in the car's windshield.
A man inspects the damaged family vehicle of seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, onSaturday, June 6, 2026. / Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP
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 people 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.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told CBS News that soldiers "perceived a vehicle accelerating toward them" in the Hebron area. A soldier responded by firing single shots, the spokesperson said. The statement said three Palestinians were injured and evacuated for medical treatment, but did not confirm the age or gender of any of the injured.
An initial inquiry "found that those injured were uninvolved civilians," the IDF spokesperson said, adding that the incident is under review and that the IDF "expresses deep sorrow for any harm caused to uninvolved individuals."
At Al-Ahly Hospital in Hebron, the baby's father told Associated Press reporters that a bullet struck the car's windshield before piercing his hand, then his son and wife.
"It entered the child's face on the right side and exited on the left, then passed directly into his mother's face and exited on the other side, with shrapnel lodged near her heart," Abu Haikal said.
Fahd Abu Haikal, 41 displays a mobile photo of his seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam. / Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP
The mother is in critical condition because there's shrapnel close to her heart, he said. They haven't told her yet that her son, who turned seven months old on Friday, was killed.
The baby's 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.
"The scene was horrific to see a seven-month-old baby with a smashed face," she said. "What kind of army in the world does this? ... What happened to my grandson can't be easily forgotten."
The baby's funeral is expected later Saturday.
The British consulate in Jerusalem said it was "shocked and saddened" by the incident, saying on social media that it was calling for an "immediate and transparent investigation and accountability" and that "civilians must be protected."
Child care bag of seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. / Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP
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, according to the U.N. Forty-nine people have been killed since the start of 2026, it said.
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 1% 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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