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'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

BBC News·@Bbc·2 months ago
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Warning - this article contains a graphic description of a shooting. In the few moments of silence after the shootings, before he was dragged from the family car, 12-year-old Khaled Bani Odeh thought he was the only member of his family left alive. Seconds before, his parents and two youngest brothers had been shot dead through the windscreen by Israeli forces, as they drove home after a family shopping trip in the occupied West Bank. Among the dead was seven-year-old Othman - blind and disabled - killed while sitting on his mother's lap. "My mother cried out one last time before going quiet," Khaled said. "My father recited the Shahada [the Islamic declaration of faith] as he died." When Israeli forces tried to drag his only surviving brother, Mustafa, from the car, Khaled said he tried to intervene. "They pulled me out instead and began jumping on my back," he said. "Then they took me to a corner and questioned me about who had been in the car. I told them it was my mother and father.…

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