At 6pm on Sunday, Baha left home in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, as usual, taking his three-year-old son, Rayan, and his brother-in-law, Khaled Abu Gharaba, to check on their farmland. However, the trip ended in tragedy.

The Abu al-Ajeen family accuse the Israeli army of kidnapping their son and his father, and shooting them without justification, resulting in the child's death and the father's injury.

Nawaf Abu al-Ajeen, the family elder and a relative of Baha, told Middle East Eye that the three of them were shocked to see Israeli soldiers positioned inside a house in the area. The soldiers opened fire directly and without warning.

According to al-Ajeen, the soldiers left the family members bleeding without providing any medical treatment, then arrested the three of them and transported them in military vehicles to the Kissufim military base.

"The child was killed instantly after being shot in the head while in his father's arms. Baha was left bleeding without any medical assistance; they simply tied a piece of cloth around his thigh and did nothing else," he said.

Baha remained detained, holding his child's body in his arms the entire time, along with Khaled, who was also under arrest. Then, at midnight, the soldiers dumped the wounded Baha and his dead child on Salah al-Din Street.