Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 7-month-old Palestinian baby boy in the occupied West Bank on Friday and wounded his mother and father, in line with the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Sam Fahd Abu Haykal was in a automobile together with his mother and father when an Israeli soldier opened hearth on the automobile close to town of Hebron, the ministry stated. The gunfire killed Haykal and injured each of his mother and father.
The boy’s grandmother, Firyal Abu Haykal, advised Reuters that one bullet struck their automobile, killing the baby. “The incident is unbelievable and unacceptable,” she advised Reuters. “We are being harmed just because we decided to stay at our homes.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated in a press release that soldiers “perceived” a automobile accelerating towards them. A soldier fired a single shot on the automobile, the IDF stated, acknowledging that these injured had been “uninvolved civilians.”
The IDF stated the incident is underneath evaluation.
Such incidents have occurred earlier than. In March, 4 members of the identical Palestinian household, together with two boys aged 5 and 7, who had been out on a late-night drive after breaking the each day Ramadan fast, had been shot lifeless by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Palestinian officers reported.
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