The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian husband and wife and their two young children in the north of the occupied West Bank on Sunday. The Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that its teams had recovered the bodies of two adults and two children from a vehicle that had been fired on by Israeli forces in the town of Tammun.
The Israeli military said it was looking into reports of the incident in response to AFP’s request for comment.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that “four martyrs from one family arrived at the Turkish Public Hospital in Tubas after the occupation army shot at them in Tammun.”
It said the hospital had received the bodies of the man, aged 37, the woman, 35, and two boys aged five and seven, adding that all had gunshot wounds. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the couple’s two other children, aged eight and 11, were wounded by shrapnel after Israeli forces opened fire on their vehicle early on Sunday morning.