Four members of the same Palestinian family, including two boys aged 5 and 7, who were out on a late-night drive after breaking the daily Ramadan fast, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Palestinian officials reported.
Israel’s military said the soldiers opened fire because they felt threatened by the movement of the family’s car. It is the latest in a rising number of fatal incidents in the occupied Palestinian territory, in which Palestinians have been killed either by Israeli soldiers or Israeli settlers.
Ali Bani Odeh, aged 37, and his 35-year-old wife, Wa’ed Bani Odeh, had taken their four young sons out in the car and were driving back home from the city of Nablus,…