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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sophia Tareen

Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say

Anthony Vazquez

A six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was fatally stabbed and his mother was wounded by their landlord in an anti-Muslim hate crime linked to the Israel-Hamas war, police in Illinois say.

The boy, named by his father as Wadea Al-Fayoume, was stabbed 26 times and his 32-year-old mother, Hanaan Shahin, more than 12 times in the shocking attack at a property in Plainfield Township, outside Chicago, on Saturday morning.

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