Overview
- A seven‑month‑old boy, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was shot and later died after Israeli troops fired at his family’s car in Hebron’s Tel Rumeida on Friday, and both parents were wounded.
- The family says the car was stopped, the driver raised his hands and a soldier about 10 metres away fired through the windshield; the IDF says troops perceived the vehicle as accelerating and a soldier fired single shots.
- A preliminary military inquiry concluded the people hit were uninvolved civilians and on June 7 the army opened a formal investigation by the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division.
- The formal probe will send its findings to the Military Advocate General’s Office for legal assessment, and the family says it will file a case while alleging soldiers took local camera footage and left without offering help.
- Tel Rumeida is a long‑standing Hebron flashpoint and the shooting comes during a wider surge of violence in the West Bank since October 2023, a period that media tallies say has seen over a thousand Palestinian deaths and dozens of Israeli fatalities.