RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said.
The official Palestinian news agency said the family was shot late Saturday after going out to buy new clothes for the coming Eid al-Fitr holiday. Israel said it was investigating the shooting.
The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said that Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot in the head. The Odehs’ two surviving children had shrapnel wounds that were examined by first responders once they were granted access, the group said, accusing Israel of delaying ambulances dispatched to the scene.
Very unlikely. The rest of the world has bigger fish to fry than a few more brown people getting killed. Americans have a president who seems like he wants world war 3, Europe is dealing with energy problems and the fact that a potential enemy, Russia, holds the only current solution, Asia is either China or worried about China, Africa and South America are dealing with their own shit and generally can’t be bothered.
Not to mention Israel is one of the few if only Western culture nations in the area, making them a strategic military ally for most of the western world. And the rest of the developed world has significant trade and technology connections to Israel.
Point is, Israel is useful, and if the cost of doing business is not getting involved when IDF shoots a few families, then so be it.
If this gets any sort of publicity, I am sure it will be blamed on some kind of misunderstanding or bad intel or tragic accident. The appropriate public relations words will be said and that will be the end of it.