HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian health ministry said that a 7-month-old baby was killed after Israeli troops opened fired at his parents' vehicle in the occupied West Bank, with the bullet striking the boy in the face.
Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was killed Friday evening and his parents were wounded while driving in the Tel Rumeida area south of Hebron, the ministry said. His father, Fahd Abu Haikal, a Bethlehem University lecturer, was shot in the hand. They had been traveling to visit family in Hebron, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said.
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"A bullet pierced the child's face from the right side and exited from the left side," and then it struck the boy's mother, the father said.
"He was the entire world," Haikal added. The boy turned seven months on Friday.
