Hassan Fuqoha, one of the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crew members called to the scene, told us that the scene had been completely different from other incidents he had attended, and that both parents and one of the children had had part of their heads blown off.
“I saw a lot of bullet casings, everywhere around the car,” he said. “It was very heavy fire, directly at the car, it’s not normal.”
Residents told us they had found more than 50 bullet casings from assault rifles, of the size used by Israeli armed forces, and handed them over to the authorities.
Another casing was still visible, trapped under rubble by the roadside, near where bloodstains remained streaked along the ground.
Yair Lapid, the head of Israeli opposition party Yesh Atid, criticised Israel’s government for not apologising to the family for the deaths of children.
“A seven-year-old boy with special needs should not die in the wars of adults,” he said.