HEBRON, June 5, 2026 (WAFA) – Seven-month-old infant Sam Fahd Abu Haikal succumbed on Friday evening to critical wounds sustained after Israeli occupation forces opened fire on his family’s vehicle in Hebron.

The Ministry of Health said that the infant Abu Haikal, his mother and father were shot after Israeli occupation forces opened fire on their vehicle on Friday evening in the Tel Rumeida area, south of Hebron.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli forces fired live ammunition at the family's vehicle in the Wadi al-Hariya neighborhood of Hebron, critically injuring the infant, who later succumbed to his wounds. His mother and father sustained moderate injuries.

The infant’s father, Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, lives with his wife and son in Bethlehem. While the family was on its way to visit his mother's home in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in central Hebron, Israeli soldiers opened live fire on their vehicle, injuring the father in the hand and wounding the mother with the same bullet that struck their infant son, Sam, in the jaw.

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