Footage Shows Israeli Soldier Fatally Shoot 7-Month-Old Baby in the West Bank

Footage released by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem shows the moment an Israeli soldier opened fire on a vehicle in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and killed a seven-month-old baby, Sam Abu Haikal.

The killing occurred on Friday when Sam’s father, Fahd Abu Haikal, was driving home in the city of Hebron, when IDF soldiers appeared on the road. The IDF claimed that a soldier fired on the car after they “perceived a vehicle accelerating toward them,” but the footage from B’Tselem shows the car was slowing down and coming to a stop.

“The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever,” B’Tselem said in a statement on the video. [more]