Amer Hujirat was hit by a bullet fired from a vehicle and aimed at a construction site near the playground. MDA staff performed resuscitation operations on him, and his death was later determined at the hospital. Documentation from the scene of the incident shows the ball in which the 3-year-old played and the large amount of blood on the grass. Eyewitnesses: "Suddenly he fell."

According to data from the organization Child Safety, since 2016, 9 children have been killed as a result of stray gunfire. 8 of the dead belong to Arab society, 1 Druze, 3 Bedouin. The data also show that in those years 105 children came to the emergency rooms as a result of a weapon injury.