US Edition'My Mother Cried Out One Last Time': Palestinian Boy, 12, Describes How Israeli Forces Killed His Family in Car
Four members of the Odeh family were killed and two children wounded when Israeli forces fired on their car during a raid, amid disputed accounts of the incident.
- On Sunday in Tammun, four family members, including father Ali Khaled Sayel Bani Odeh, mother Waad Othman Aql Bani Odeh, and their children Mohammad and Othman, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers.
- Israel's military said it fired after the vehicle accelerated toward troops, while survivors say the family car had slowed and pulled over before Israeli forces opened fire without warning.
- First responders say access was delayed, with residents reporting over 50 bullet casings and medics describing head wounds among the victims, including Ali and Waed Odeh, and two children, shot in the head.
- Rights groups stress opaque military inquiries and historically low indictment rates as Israeli military and police said the shooting is under investigation after perceiving a threat.
- Yesh Din documented 109 incidents of settler violence since the start of the war, amid movement restrictions that have hampered emergency response, according to Statement 57, 56.
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The story to Republic of a cousin of Ali Bani Odeh, struck in Tammun Saturday night by Israeli soldiers along with his wife and two children. It is a massacre if...
Ali Khaled Bani Odeh's 37-year-old family and his wife Waad, 35, were a few minutes away from home when they were killed in Tammun village near Tubas, shortly after midnight on Saturday.The use of lethal force against a civilian car carrying four young children has refocused attention on how heavily armed Israeli soldiers respond.
The Palestinian children who survived as Israeli soldiers riddled their car with bullets: ‘After killing my family, they laughed at me’
Khaled Bani Odeh, 11, and his younger brother Mustafa, eight, are the only survivors of an incident in which Israeli soldiers opened fire on the car carrying their family as they returned to their hometown of Tammun in the occupied West Bank after a night out shopping ahead of the end of Ramadan. The soldiers shot and killed all the other passengers: their parents, Ali (37) and Waad (35), and their younger brothers — five‑year‑old Mohammed and s…
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