9 days on, authorities yet to probe officers in deadly shooting of Palestinian family

Nine days have passed since Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian couple and their two young children in the West Bank village of Tammun, but none of the Border Police officers involved has been summoned for questioning, Haaretz reports.

Border Police have claimed that officers believed the car carrying the family sped toward them, though an investigation has been launched into the incident.

One of the surviving children, 11-year-old Khaled Bani Awda, told Palestinian media after the incident that the gunfire had been directed straight at the car.

“The army arrived. They pulled me out of the car. There were people sitting on my chest. They told me: ‘Tell us everything that happened to you or we will kill you.’ I told them we had been shopping in Nablus and then returned home, and that in the car were my father, my mother, and my three brothers. [The officer] called me a liar and then hit me in the face,” he said.