WEST BANK WEAN : PARSE PRECIS

Ali Bani Odeh's wife and her four young student boys hadn't seen him in a month and a half when he came to Tammum, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late one Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family.

On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid ul-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming so there were new clothes to buy. The day's fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too.

They picked up fried doughnuts holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. 

It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun : Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammed 5, Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking, or feeding himself, was in his mother's lap.

Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say '' God is great'' - and then heard a fusillade of gunfire.

Two children/students survived the attack on their car that killed their parents and brothers.

The World Students Society thanks David M Halbfinger, Natan Oden Heimer and Fatima Abdul Karim.