Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian couple and two of their children as they drove in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health authorities, with the Israeli military saying the incident is under review.

Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, his 35-year-old wife Waad, and two of their children – Mohammad and Othman, aged five and seven, respectively – were shot in the head in the village of Tammun on Sunday. Two of their other children were wounded by shrapnel, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Speaking to the Reuters news agency at the hospital, Khaled, 12, one of the two surviving boys, said he heard his mother crying, his father praying, but no voice of any of his other brothers before silence prevailed after shots sprayed the car.

“We came under direct fire; we didn’t know the source. Everyone in the car was ⁠martyred, except my brother Mustafa and me,” the boy said.

He said soldiers, who ⁠pulled him out of the vehicle before beating him, shouted: “We killed dogs.”

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    “We came under direct fire; we didn’t know the source. Everyone in the car was ⁠martyred, except my brother Mustafa and me,” the boy said.

    Israel keeps mass murdering entire families to the point that little children say “martyred” instead of “killed” and then act all “see? Antisemitism!” when survivors fight back

    I pose that Israel is the biggest anti-semitic threat to Jews world wide, and it should be dismantled.

    Note that normally I’d not say “country is” but country’s government is " instead, but as Israel has been doing this shit for at least the 5 decades that I’ve been alive (I remember the news when I was a child, it was fucking every week “something something Israel killed another bunch of children because dumb reasons”) so multiple governments have been doing the same shit for decades; it’s the country that is the problem.