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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.

The official Palestinian news agency said the family was shot late Saturday after going out to buy new clothes for the coming Eid al-Fitr holiday. Israel said it was investigating the shooting.

The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said that Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot in the head. The Odehs' two surviving children had shrapnel wounds that were examined by first responders once they were granted access, the group said, accusing Israel of delaying ambulances dispatched to the scene.

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[–] ottieplod@feddit.org 29 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

The children were five and seven years old. The seven year old was a blind special needs child. The surviving two children, the oldest of which is eleven, had to watch their parents and brothers get murdered before being pulled out of the car and beaten and taunted by the attackers. They also prevented ambulances from reaching the scene.

Can this please be the final straw at last? How can any country continue to stand by and support this racist regime.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 weeks ago

Hind Rajab was massacred by the IDF after she called the Red Crescent. Which informed the IDF that they were going to shoot at a 5 year old girl in a car....The IDF awaited the ambulance and massacred her along with it.

Israel targets children intentionally.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Can this please be the final straw at last?

Very unlikely. The rest of the world has bigger fish to fry than a few more brown people getting killed. Americans have a president who seems like he wants world war 3, Europe is dealing with energy problems and the fact that a potential enemy, Russia, holds the only current solution, Asia is either China or worried about China, Africa and South America are dealing with their own shit and generally can't be bothered.

Not to mention Israel is one of the few if only Western culture nations in the area, making them a strategic military ally for most of the western world. And the rest of the developed world has significant trade and technology connections to Israel.

Point is, Israel is useful, and if the cost of doing business is not getting involved when IDF shoots a few families, then so be it.

If this gets any sort of publicity, I am sure it will be blamed on some kind of misunderstanding or bad intel or tragic accident. The appropriate public relations words will be said and that will be the end of it.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You forget the most important factor: Europe and the US support what Israel is doing and want it to continue.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Quite true. Iran has been both an embarrassment and a thorn in the side of the West since we created the current regime. And after all who cares about a few more dead brown people there's plenty more where they came from right?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

had to watch their parents and brothers get liked

Might be worth fixing that typo.

[–] ottieplod@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The children were five and seven years old. The seven year old was a blind special needs child. The surviving two children, the oldest of which is eleven, had to watch their parents and brothers get murdered before being pulled out of the car and beaten and taunted by the attackers. They also prevented ambulances from reaching the scene.

So they shot into a car, blocked medical help until after their targets were dead, and then claimed that the car was accelerating toward them.

ICE trains with the IDF and it shows.