{"id":362,"date":"2026-06-07T05:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:06:33","slug":"israeli-military-kills-7-month-old-palestinian-baby-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Military Kills 7-Month-Old Palestinian Baby in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a <\/span><\/i><i><span>quick donation<\/span><\/i><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=360\">Judge Blocks Trump From Holding Food Aid Hostage to Force His Agenda on States<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sam Abu Haikal was seven months old. On Friday night, Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family\u2019s car in Hebron. He was pulled out of it dead.<\/p>\n<p>The family lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron\u2019s old city, an area surrounded by Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, and settler outposts, and where Palestinians live under constant harassment and restrictions to their movement.<\/p>\n<p>Since Friday, the Abu Haikal family has been reeling in shock, trying to piece together their loss. Samah Abu Haikal, Sam\u2019s aunt, told <em>Mondoweiss<\/em> that Sam and his parents \u2014 her brother Fahd and his wife Dania \u2014 had been returning from a visit to family members in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were very close to Tel Rumeida in an area called Wadi Hariyeh, where the Israeli army doesn\u2019t usually set up checkpoints,\u201d she said. Surprised by the patrol, Fahd stepped on the brakes suddenly, but the soldiers had already raised their rifles. \u201cOne of them fired a single bullet that struck the steering wheel and broke into fragments, sending shrapnel into the car,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The shrapnel struck little Sam in the face, killing him, she detailed.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cHere, You Can Be Killed With No Consequences at All<\/strong>\u201c<\/h2>\n<p>Sam\u2019s mother, Dania Salameh, was wounded by another fragment that hit her near the jugular vein, while Fahd was wounded in the hand. \u201cDania is now in the hospital in intensive care, where she learned that her child had been killed,\u201d Samah continued. \u201cDoctors sedated her, while Fahd went out this morning [Saturday] to bury Sam himself, despite his wounded hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=358\">As Anti-LGBTQ Censorship Expands, These Cities Have Cancelled Pride This Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Samah, \u201ceven though Tel Rumeida is dangerous at all times, this is still a huge shock for the entire family.\u201d In Tel Rumeida, she said, \u201conly residents are permitted entry, and when I go to visit my brother, soldiers often turn me back. And when I am allowed to go in I am scared all the time because of the sheer number of soldiers and settlers everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samah described life in Hebron as having gotten more dangerous over the past year, with Israeli settlers constantly harassing residents and even hurling objects at children. \u201cThe situation has become unbearable, and there seems to be very little attention worldwide,\u201d she lamented. \u201cHere, you can just be killed with no consequences at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army was quoted by Israeli media as saying that the soldiers \u201cperceived a car accelerating towards them,\u201d acknowledging that the victims were \u201cuninvolved civilians\u201d and that \u201cthe incident was under investigation.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p>This is the second incident of its kind in the West Bank in less than three months, ever since Israeli soldiers opened fire on a car in Tubas last March, killing four members of a Palestinian family, including both parents and two children aged five and seven. The Israeli army also said at the time that it was investigating the incident and had opened a probe. To date, no Israeli soldier has faced any charges.<\/p>\n<p>Sam\u2019s death raises the number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in 2026 to 115. He was the 17th Palestinian child killed this year in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=356\">What I\u2019ve Learned From 25 Years of Covering the Global War on Terror<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has killed at least 240 Palestinian children in the West Bank since October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Israeli Military Kills 7-Month-Old Palestinian Baby in West Bank - Smart Moving Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=362\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Israeli Military Kills 7-Month-Old Palestinian Baby in West Bank - 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