Israeli troops kill infant, injure parents in West Bank

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 07, 2026 · 70 words · By Video by FRANCE

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Israeli troops shot at a car in the occupied West Bank, killing a 7-month-old Palestinian baby and wounding his parents, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the bullet striking the boy in the face.

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What happened

Why it matters

The Israeli military said that soldiers shot at a vehicle perceived to be accelerating toward them near Hebron.

Common ground

It said an initial inquiry found that the three Palestinians wounded were uninvolved civilians.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The Israeli military said that soldiers shot at a vehicle perceived to be accelerating toward them near Hebron”

CORROBORATED

Web search results confirm the Israeli military's statement that soldiers fired at a vehicle they believed was accelerating toward them near Hebron.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews were massacred on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine. The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 25 February 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and member of the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement, carried out a mass shooting of Palestinians who were praying in the Ibrahi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacr…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hebron is a city in the southern West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Hebron Governorate, which is the largest in the West Bank. It is located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Jerusalem. The pop…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron

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Claim 2: “the bullet striking the boy in the face”

CORROBORATED

Three separate web search results explicitly state that the bullet struck the 7-month-old baby in the face.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Oslo II Accord divided the Israeli-occupied West Bank into three administrative divisions: the Palestinian enclaves as "Areas A and B" and the remainder, including Israeli settlements, as "Area C"…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_areas_in_the_Oslo_II…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_barrier

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Claim 3: “Israeli troops shot at a car in the occupied West Bank, killing a 7-month-old Palestinian baby and wounding his parents, the Palestinian health ministry said”

CORROBORATED

Multiple independent web sources (including reports citing the Palestinian Health Ministry) confirm that Israeli forces shot at a car in the West Bank, resulting in the death of a 7-month-old baby and injuries to his parents.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The enclaves are…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves

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Claim 4: “It said an initial inquiry found that the three Palestinians wounded were uninvolved civilians”

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While the general incident is corroborated, the specific detail regarding the 'initial inquiry' finding the three Palestinians were 'uninvolved civilians' is mentioned in the context of the reporting but not independently verified by multiple distinct news organizations in the provided evidence snippets.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli settler violence refers to acts of violence, intimidation, property damage, and other reported attacks carried out by Israeli settlers, mainly in the West Bank against Palestinians. It has bee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Old City of Hebron (Arabic: البلدة القديمة الخليل Hebrew: עיר העתיקה של חברון) is the historic city centre of Hebron. The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally starte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_of_Hebron

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