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For those wondering, it is verifiable story, it is covered as fact in Israeli newspapers: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-palestini
by bhouston 7mo ago
For those wondering, it is verifiable story, it is covered as fact in Israeli newspapers:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-palestinian-couple-2-children-police-say-car-sped-at-troops/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-kill-west-bank-...
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/p7mq5k5bs https://www.ynetnews.com/article/p7mq5k5bs
The main justification floated is that the car was "going fast" and thus made the undercover Israeli soldiers feel unsafe.
The New York Times describes it as such:
"Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late on Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family.
On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming, so there were new clothes to buy. The day’s fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too.
They picked up fried doughnut holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun: Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammad, 5. Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking or feeding himself, was in his mother’s lap in front.
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."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/world/middleeast/palestinian-family-killed-west-bank.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/world/middleeast/palestin...
- kakacik 7mo ago[flagged]
- xg15 7mo ago> this is war 101, every day. Except this situation has been going on like this for 60 years - with Israel, or the other western states having absolutely no plans to change anything about it (except making it even worse).
- cogman10 7mo ago> this is war 101 The west bank isn't at war with Israel. There wasn't some conflict or event that has justified these actions. I wish people understood this better. Even if you could manage to justify what's happening in gaza as "this is war", Gaza and the west bank are separate entities with separate governments. The west bank, in particular, is more like an Indian reservation in the US, with the Israeli government effectively exercising supremacy over all aspects of the government. Theoretically, the IDF is supposed to be the police force for the west bank. That's why they occupy it.
- xdennis 7mo ago[flagged]
- cogman10 7mo agoWrong. Gaza and the West Bank aren't countries, they have no autonomy. Palestine isn't a country, it was once where Israel now sits, but hasn't been since the 40s. Palestinians are people, must like Jews are people. Palestinians are the indigenous inhabitants of Israel, the west bank, and gaza. Much like all Jews aren't responsible for the actions of Israel, All Palestinians aren't responsible for the actions of Hamas. Even the residence of Gaza.
- LeoNatan25 7mo ago[flagged]
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- kreyenborgi 7mo ago> this is war 101 genocide 101
- intexpress 7mo agoI don’t think anyone is going to forget about this
- Qiu_Zhanxuan 7mo agocompletely deranged way of thinking that calls for a hard self-reflection.
- jll29 7mo agoA certain amount of politics should/must be tolerated on HN, because you cannot compartmentalize technology, politics and morality. No-one, not even people who say they like technology but do not care about politics, should be able to live their life wihtout knowing that we live in a world where six-year old blind children are murdered with automatic assault rifles. (For the same reason that no-one should be able to live not knowing that jewish once were murdered in the millions in gas chambers.)
- vybandz 7mo ago[flagged]
- pasquinelli 7mo agoi've been on hn a long time, and if there's a prohibition against anything vaguely political if it can't be connected to technology, i've never known it.
- nxor2 7mo agoI was shadowbanned for mentioning Iryna Zarutska. Most political topics can be connected to technology: technology after all is often how we hear of and discuss these things.
- disqard 7mo agoHow did you realize you were shadowbanned? I'm curious because I sometimes wonder, if that happened to me, would it affect the way in which I engage with this website? FWIW, I often lurk, but sometimes engage (like right now). Perhaps it could happen to me and I would not realize it for a while...
- suburban_strike 7mo agoWhen your karma stops changing one way or the other is the biggest giveaway.
- wk_end 7mo agoThe situation in the West Bank (and similar forces are at play in Gaza, too) remind me of what's wrong with American policing, at a far more extreme scale. The people charged with enforcing the peace deploy lethal force with near impunity at the slightest "provocation" (a child throwing a stone, a car driving too fast); I wouldn't be surprised if IDF forces deployed to the West Bank are trained much like American police officers are, to operate in constant fear and perceive absolutely everything and everyone as a deadly threat to be neutralized. The soldiers themselves are raised in a culture with deeply racist undertones, making them all too ready to view any random Palestinian as a terrorist. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy that should be overseeing them works only to protect them. It's no surprise that things like this happen as often as they do. Reform in the US is imaginable, I can and do believe, but it's much harder for me to imagine it in Israel - even much of the so-called left in Israel is too radicalized against Palestinians after 100 years of conflict, the Second Intifada, and October 7.
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 7mo ago> I wouldn't be surprised if IDF forces deployed to the West Bank are trained much like American police officers are IDF trains them. https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/ https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-whom-are-many-u-s-polic...
- mupuff1234 7mo agoPretty sure police brutality was invented way before Israel existed.
- juliusceasar 7mo ago[flagged]
- 6510 7mo agoIn the 1200's British colonizers invaded Ireland, in 1920's the same colonial oppressors were moved to Palestine. Arthur Balfour was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1887 till 1891 and it was his idea to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Ship out the jews, radicalize the natives, have the two of them fight for hundreds of years. It couldn't be a more British idea.
- igonvalue 7mo ago[dead]
- igonvalue 7mo agoI'm wondering about the broader context here: Are stories like this rare or common? Are they increasing or decreasing in frequency?
- bhouston 7mo agoYeah it is getting worse. This was written 3 days ago before this event by Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/13/in-the-shadow-of-war-settler-violence-against-palestinians-intensifies https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/13/in-the-shadow-of-war-set...
- Noumenon72 7mo ago[dead]
- jazz9k 7mo ago"The main justification floated is that the car was "going fast" and thus made the undercover Israeli soldiers feel unsafe." Funny way of saying trying to run someone over.
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- alashow 7mo agoI just know what type of person you are from this comment