Parents, sons shot in head in West Bank gunfire, 2 children survive to tell story
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A couple and two children were killed when Israeli fire hit their car in the West Bank. Two injured boys survived, their story reveals the terrifying final moments inside the vehicle.
On a quiet Sunday in the occupied West Bank, a family of six set out in their car for what should have been an ordinary drive home. By the time the gunfire stopped, four of them were dead, and two young boys were left behind to recount a moment that would shatter their lives forever.
Palestinian health authorities say Israeli forces shot and killed Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, his 35-year-old wife Waad, and two of their children, Mohammad, 7, and Othman, 5, in the village of Tammun.
The parents and the two young boys were shot in the head while inside their vehicle. Two other children in the car survived but were wounded by shrapnel.
One of the survivors, 12-year-old Khaled, described the final moments inside the vehicle from his hospital bed.
“We came under direct fire; we didn’t know the source,” he told Reuters, recalling the chaos that erupted inside the family car. “I heard my mother crying, my father praying but I didn’t hear the voices of my brothers. Then there was silence.”
According to the boy, the shooting left everyone in the vehicle dead except him and his brother Mustafa.
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A couple and two children were killed when Israeli fire hit their car in the West Bank. Two injured boys survived, their story reveals the terrifying final moments inside the vehicle.
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