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Israeli Forces Kill 16 Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank

HeadlineMar 16, 2026

Israel continues to violate the U.S.-brokered so-called ceasefire in Gaza, killing 12 people, including two children and a pregnant woman, on Sunday. Since the ceasefire deal last October, Israeli forces have killed more than 650 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian father, mother and two of their children in their car on Sunday. Thirty-seven-year-old Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, his wife Waad and two of their children, Mohammad and Othman, were each shot in the head in the village of Tammun. Two other children managed to survive; this is one of them recounting how Israeli soldiers attacked his family.

Khaled Ali Khaled Bani Odeh: “We were leaving Nablus from al-Nabulsi restaurant. All of a sudden, we came under direct fire; we didn’t know the source. Everyone in the car was martyred, except for my brother Mustafa and me. A soldier came and pulled me out of the car. They started beating me. They pulled out my brother Mustafa. They tried to beat him, but I stood in front of them. They pushed me to the ground and started beating me on the back with their boots. The Israeli soldiers started to say, 'We killed dogs.'”

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