[Opinion. What do these young hooligan police and soldiers tell their families? Perhaps these rhetorical questions? “How was your day, Honey?””Oh, I was over in Tamoun and shot a couple dogs in the head. Wash my uniform tomorrow, eh.” THIS KIND OF BANAL ATROCITY—COLD-BLOODED MURDER—IS GENOCIDE IN PRACTICE. What are they going to think in middle age when they have real jobs, and in old age which should be gentle with grandchildren. This will leave scars on this society forever. Illegal occupation of the West Bank is nothing more than land theft from people already living there. Palestinians are being overwhelmed and displaced by these invaders. Violence against the inhabitants, including murder, while police and soldiers either stand by or participate in the bloodshed. The only difference with fascism in other places and at other times is in matters of scale.] Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip Emma Graham-Harrison and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem The Guardian: 15 March 2026 Israeli border police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip. Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother, Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father, Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their home town of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire. Israeli forces target Palestinians with near total impunity in the occupied West Bank, where the last attack that led to a homicide indictment was a 2019 shooting, according to legal data compiled by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din. Since then Israeli forces have killed more than 1,400 people in the West Bank, including more than 320 children and over 30 women, UN figures show. Israeli settlers killed at least 44 other Palestinians. One of the Israelis said “we killed dogs”, he told Reuters. “What did this family do? They went to buy Eid necessities, and to put a smile on those children’s faces,” said Mansour Abu Islam, a neighbour and cousin of Ali. “This is clear evidence that Palestinian lives have no value.” [No rocks, no shouting for an excuse. And clear evidence of Israel's impunity.]
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