Ali and Waad Bani Odeh’s four children were showing off the new clothes they had just bought for the upcoming Eid celebrations as their parents drove home from Nablus in the northern West Bank to their house in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas.
The children joyfully described the colours and styles of their outfits to their visually impaired brother, Othman. Ali glanced back at his children and smiled at his wife, sharing a rare moment together, as his work often kept him away from his family.
It was a perfect Saturday evening for the Palestinian family, violently interrupted when undercover Israeli special forces suddenly peppered the car with bullets, killing the parents and two of their children.
Ali, 37, Waad, 35, and their children, Mohammad and Othman, aged five and seven respectively, were each shot in the head. Only Mustafa, eight, and Khaled, 12, survived, though they sustained shrapnel wounds to the face and head.
The Israeli forces, travelling in a civilian car, opened fire as soon as Ali’s vehicle reached the western part of Tammun.
