The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and said he was killed at the scene, while his parents were ​wounded in the shooting and were in moderate condition.

The baby’s ​grandmother said the family was driving near Checkpoint 17 when ⁠they saw Israeli military vehicles and soldiers in the distance and ​stopped the car.

She said shots were then fired toward them, ​which they initially believed were warning shots.

“One bullet struck my grandson, traversed his face and crossed his head, striking his mother’s cheek where it lodged,” she said, ​adding that the bullet had also grazed the father’s finger, and ​that the mother was in hospital.

The Israeli military said that during operational activity ‌in ⁠the Hebron area on Friday, soldiers perceived a vehicle accelerating toward them, and one soldier fired single shots at the vehicle.

It said three Palestinians were wounded and evacuated for medical treatment.

An initial military inquiry ​found that those ​injured were “uninvolved ⁠civilians”, the military said, adding that the incident was under review and that the findings would be ​submitted to the relevant authorities.

Tel Rumeida, an area of ​Hebron where ⁠Israeli settlers live under heavy military protection among Palestinian residents, has long been a flashpoint for violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Over 700,000 ⁠settlers live ​in East Jerusalem and the West Bank ​among more than 3 million Palestinians, according to a European Union report in 2024.