This Week in Palestine: Israel Kills 4 Members of One Family and Attacks Muslim Worshippers on Eid
Zeteo's new weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies.
As the US-Israeli war rages in Iran and Israel escalates its bombardment of Lebanon, Israel’s genocide in Palestine continues.
Just this week, Israeli forces shot dead four members of one family whose only crime was being Palestinian while driving home at night after dinner in the occupied West Bank. Israel also killed more than a dozen Palestinians across Gaza; we learned just how dangerous the US-Israeli war on Iran can be for Palestinians in the West Bank; and Israeli settlers carried out a night of violence, setting fires to cars and homes and beating Palestinians.
The Iran war, high oil prices, and Donald Trump’s idiocy have turned away what little attention there was on the ongoing genocide in Palestine, but as we promised, Zeteo will not become distracted. That’s why we started ‘This Week in Palestine’ – bringing some of the biggest and most underreported stories from across the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Now, here’s ‘This Week in Palestine’:
Saturday, March 14 – Israeli Forces Kill 4 Members of Palestinian Family
Israeli forces shot dead Ali Bani Odeh, his wife, Waad, their blind 6-year-old son, Othman, and their youngest son, Muhammad, in their car as they returned home from dinner in the occupied West Bank late Saturday night. The couple’s two eldest sons, Khaled, 11, and Mustafa, 8, survived the attack, with Khaled telling reporters: “My mother let out a cry and then she went silent and I did not hear my brothers.” He added that Israeli soldiers beat him and his brother and said, “We killed dogs” when they reached the car.
As it often does, Israel attempted to paint the family as a threat to justify the shooting, but its comments were quickly dispelled by the accounts of the two surviving brothers and other witnesses.