Israeli forces killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby and wounded his parents in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West ​Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian ‌health ministry said.

The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and said he died at the scene, while his parents sustained gunshot wounds 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 towards 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.

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Israeli strike killed at least seven Palestinians

An Israeli strike killed at ​least seven Palestinians, including two women, in Gaza on Saturday, health officials said, ‌as mediators restarted talks in Cairo with Hamas and other factions over safeguarding a strained ceasefire agreement.

Medics said seven people were killed and 15 others, including children, were wounded when an Israeli airstrike targeted a large ​tent encampment in the heart of Gaza City.

An Israeli military spokesperson told Reuters the military ​had carried out a strike targeting “terrorists”, but provided no further details.

A ceasefire ⁠brokered by US President Donald Trump has failed to halt Israeli attacks and left Israel in ​control of more than half the enclave after the war began with Palestinian group Hamas’ attacks on ​southern Israel in October 2023.

Indirect talks on a second phase of the deal, including Hamas disarmament and Israeli troop withdrawals, have stalled.

On Saturday, Egypt began hosting a new round of truce talks with leaders from Hamas and ​other Palestinian factions expected to last for a few days, Hamas and other sources close ​to the negotiation said.

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Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, said the talks would focus on Israel’s implementation of ‌the ⁠first phase and reaching common ground on proceeding toward the second phase.

Hamas told mediators, Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and envoys of Trump’s Board of Peace that ending Israeli attacks in Gaza was essential for any progress, sources from the group and officials close to the talks said.

Hamas wants Israel to ​end attacks, allow more ​aid into Gaza and ⁠withdraw to the ceasefire lines.

Some 950 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since the truce began, according to figures from Gaza health officials. Hamas rarely ​provides details on deaths among its fighters.

Four Israeli soldiers have been killed ⁠over the same period, Israel’s military has said.

Israel says its strikes aim to thwart imminent attacks and that it allows aid and goods into Gaza.

Nearly 73,000 people in Gaza have been killed since ⁠the fighting started, most of them civilians, according to Gaza health ​authorities.

Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 251 Israeli and foreign hostages in its October 7, 2023, attacks, Israel has said.