Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank

[Jilly_in_VA]

Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip.

Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother, Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father, Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their home town of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.

Israeli forces target Palestinians with near total impunity in the occupied West Bank, where the last attack that led to a homicide indictment was a 2019 shooting, according to legal data compiled by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din.

Since then Israeli forces have killed more than 1,400 people, including more than 320 children and over 30 women, UN figures show. Israeli settlers killed at least 44 other Palestinians.

The Bani Odeh family were killed just hours after Israeli settlers shot and killed Amir Moatasem Odeh, 28, in Qusra south of Nablus. The attackers also stabbed his father, Moatasem Awda, who was taken to hospital in serious condition.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/israeli-police-kill-two-young-palestinian-boys-and-their-parents-in-west-bank

And their sorry-ass excuse was...? Forgive me if I don't see any....any at all....

[Bread and Circuses]

1. Is this Jared Kushner's Peace Plan?

[Eko]

2. What the fuck!

[malaise]

3. Monsters

That is all

[multigraincracker]

4. The IDF and Settlers are the worse.

[B.See]

5. I recall John Oliver (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) doing

(either last season or the one before) a quite eye opening segment on the West Bank.

[Bettie]

6. Wow, those settlers are such peaceful people....

murdering a family, including two small children.

Bet they are proud of themselves tonight, they get to go to their friends and tell them how manly they are, killing two little kids.

[Bayard]

7. I don't even know what to say about inhuman monsters anymore

Has the world even been so generally mean and nasty before?

[lostnfound]

8. Israelis can be such warm, remarkable people. I do not understand...

how to reconcile stories like this, and the endlessly hard-headed and unimaginative hostility toward Palestinians, with the tremendously warm and sparkly culture that i had the pleasure of experiencing in the late 1990s.

The Israeli-American i know best (dual citizen) is so delightful, a cheery elderly person with great stories to tell…but the comments i have heard from time to time about news events are beyond cringe-inducing.

Probably there are parallels in American culture too.

[leftstreet]

9. DURec

[Prairie Gates]

10. The "Most Moral Country in the Middle East," ladies and gentlemen

[womanofthehills]

11. NYT is also covering story (mom had 6 yr old blind child on her lap)

NYT -

Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late on Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family.

On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming, so there were new clothes to buy. The day’s fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too.

They picked up fried doughnut holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun: Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammad, 5. Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking or feeding himself, was in his mother’s lap in front.

As they rounded a corner slowly, a few minutes from home, young Khaled and Mustafa recounted on Sunday, their mother, Waad, 35, asked her husband to pull over and take Othman from her so she could get something from her bag on the floor. Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say “God is great” — and then heard a deafening fusillade of gunfire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/world/middleeast/palestinian-family-killed-west-bank.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share