Israeli soldiers murder 7-month-old in Occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers shot and murdered a seven-month-old baby in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, West Bank, on Friday, June 5.

Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was in his mother’s arms when Israeli soldiers killed him. The IOF opened fire on a car which was carrying the infant and his family. They shot despite the car having complied with an order to stop, injuring both his parents.

Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was critically injured and evacuated in critical condition to a hospital. He later died from his injuries. Fahd’s 11-year-old son and mother were also in the car.

Abu Haikal’s wife is still in critical condition, with shrapnel close to her heart.

According to Fahd Abu Haikal, Sam’s father, a bullet passed through his hand and struck his son, Sam, who his mother was holding in the back seat. The family had been driving through Hebron when IOF soldiers signalled the vehicle to stop. 

Abu Haikal told Haaretz:

The soldier signalled me to stop. I brought the car to a complete halt and raised my hands on the steering wheel. Immediately afterwards, they opened fire on the vehicle. The soldier was about 10 metres away from me. He saw me, he saw my wife and the children.

The windows were not tinted, it was broad daylight and everything was clear. You can’t say he didn’t see that it was a family. I stopped as I was instructed to, and then they simply shot at the car.

There was no clear checkpoint, just soldiers standing in the street. I stopped when I was asked to, and then the shooting started.

This was after the IOF claimed that troops:

perceived a vehicle accelerating toward them and one of the soldiers responded with single shots toward the vehicle.

‘Single shots’ is a funny way of saying open fire, or multiple rounds. But I guess Israel will do anything to avoid accountability.

West Bank and Gaza — A pattern

As of September 2025, Israel had murdered over 20,000 children in Gaza, or two percent of all children in Gaza. That is the equivalent of at least one Palestinian child every hour over nearly 23 months of genocide. 

Of these, at least 1,009 were under the age of one, and half of these were born and then killed during the genocide. Israel had injured an additional 42,011 children and left 21,000 permanently disabled, as of September. Thousands more are presumed to be under the rubble.

This shows a pattern. Israel deliberately carpet bombs civilian areas and targets children.

Israel is doing exactly the same in Lebanon. In the first 25 days of the ‘ceasefire‘ that definitely isn’t a ceasefire, Israel killed or injured more than four children per day. This brings the total number of children that Israel has killed in Lebanon since March 2 to 199.

In July 2024, UNICEF reported that Israel had killed 143 Palestinian children in the West Bank since October 2023. That’s one child every two days. Additionally, Israel has injured more than 440 Palestinian children with live ammunition.

The West Bank has seen an increase in large, militarised law enforcement operations over the past few years. Of course, this is illegal under international law, and the IOF has no right to be in the West Bank.

Where’s the morality?

Israel and its terrorist army have no morality and no conscience. It bombs hospitals, murders and maims babies, and carpet bombs whole cities under the guise of ‘defeating terrorists’. We all know it’s real M.O — a Greater Israel, and to make that happen, it has to ethnically cleanse every single Palestinian from their native land.

No doubt Israel will tell us that a seven-month-old was the mastermind behind October 7. Or it was antisemitic.

But one thing is clear — anyone who supports Israel supports babies being murdered in cold blood.

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