A seven-month-old baby was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier in the illegally occupied West Bank on Friday. It was daytime when troops stopped the car carrying Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, his parents, grandmother and brother at a checkpoint in Hebron. The baby’s father, Abou Haikal, said the soldier who made them stop “saw me, saw my wife and the kids… You can’t say he didn’t see it was a family.” “The bullet penetrated the front windshield, went through my arm, and then struck my son in the head and my wife in the face,” he added. In February, data from Unicef confirmed that at least 21,289 Palestinian children had been killed in the Gaza strip since October 7 2023. In the West Bank, one in five people killed by Israel are children.

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