Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire (www.nytimes.com)
from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 00:26
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Six members of a Palestinian family went out for a ride in the car. Only two made it back home.
March 15, 2026

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As they rounded a corner slowly, a few minutes from home, young Khaled and Mustafa recounted on Sunday, their mother, Waad, 35, asked her husband to pull over and take Othman from her so she could get something from her bag on the floor. Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say “God is great” — and then heard a deafening fusillade of gunfire.

The Israeli police and military, in a joint statement Sunday morning, said that border police officers and soldiers, while on a mission in Tammun to arrest suspected terrorists, had “sensed danger” after a vehicle “accelerated towards” them and “responded by shooting.” They said the circumstances of the episode were being investigated.

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