Wadea Al-Fayoume - report
2023 stabbing of a child in Plainfield, Illinois
On October 14, 2023, Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, was killed when he was stabbed 26 times in his home in Plainfield Township, Illinois, in what authorities said was an anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate crime. His mother, Hanaan Shahin, was also stabbed and choked, leaving her critically injured. Authorities said the killing was an extremist reaction to the contemporaneous 2023 Israel–Hamas war, a part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.