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.”
“Oh, look, those people aren’t obeying the law! If we do things as bad as their worst, things will get better!”
Do you think the Germans would have surrendered if they were certain that every thing they had done to the Jews would be visited on them? Why wouldn’t they fight to the last man, causing each side to pay in millions more deaths?
Netanyahu can be stopped without committing atrocities. Committing atrocities in return just means neither side will have any incentive to stop. The rules of warfare aren’t there to protect the weaker side, they’re there to give an alternative to fighting until one side or the other is utterly destroyed. And if your response is, “Well, I’m okay with destroying all the fascists,” then you first have to identify all the fascists. This isn’t something simple like blue eyes or straight hair. Even if you could kill every fascist, that still wouldn’t mean that you couldn’t have more. The belief isn’t genetic.