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Sam Abu Haikal was seven months old. On Friday night, Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family’s car in Hebron. He was pulled out of it dead.

The family lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron’s old city, an area surrounded by Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, and settler outposts, and where Palestinians live under constant harassment and restrictions to their movement.

Since Friday, the Abu Haikal family has been reeling in shock, trying to piece together their loss. Samah Abu Haikal, Sam’s aunt, told Mondoweiss that Sam and his parents — her brother Fahd and his wife Dania — had been returning from a visit to family members in Bethlehem.

“They were very close to Tel Rumeida in an area called Wadi Hariyeh, where the Israeli army doesn’t usually set up checkpoints,” she said. Surprised by the patrol, Fahd stepped on the brakes suddenly, but the soldiers had already raised their rifles. “One of them fired a single bullet that struck the steering wheel and broke into fragments, sending shrapnel into the car,” she........

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