Head of the Hadash-Ta’al faction MK Ayman Odeh files a formal complaint to the Knesset Ethics Committee against racist MK Yitzhak Kroizer of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party for stating from the Knesset podium that there are “no innocent civilians or innocent children” in the Palestinian occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Farewell and funeral procession for the Bani Odeh family, who were assassinated by Israeli special forces at dawn on Sunday, March 15, 2026, in the town of Tammoun, south of Tubas (Photo: Activestills)
Odeh says Kroizer’s comments “do severe harm to basic values of humanity, of human beings as human beings.” “A sweeping denial of the existence of innocent people, especially children, alongside clear incitement to harm them, legitimizes murder and harm to civilians, and echoes dangerous notions of dehumanization,” says Odeh in his complaint.
He says that comments such as those from Kroizer have influenced Jewish extremists in the West Bank, “the results of which can be seen day and night with the colonialist terror attacks against Palestinians in the occupied territories of 1967.” Odeh calls on the Knesset Ethics Committee to sanction Kroizer for “incitement against children and innocent people.”
In his speech, Kroizer was defending Israeli occupation forces over an incident this month in which Border Police officers shot and killed a Palestinian couple and their two young children in their car in the West Bank village of Tammun. The officers claim the car “sped toward them.” An investigation has been launched, although the officers have yet to be questioned. “I stand behind IDF soldiers in every situation. Even if the collateral damage is children or women — it does not matter to me,” Kroizer said. “In Jenin, there are no innocent civilians. In Jenin, there are no innocent children.”
A Palestinian worker, his wife, and their two children were killed after midnight on Sunday, March 15, occupation forces in Tammun, south of Tubas, while their two other children were injured by shrapnel, WAFA reported. Soldiers opened fire on a vehicle, killing Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, his wife Waad Othman Bani Odeh, 35, and their two children, Mohammed, 5, and Othman, 7. Their other two children, Mustafa, 8, and Khaled, 11, sustained minor shrapnel injuries to the head and face. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israeli forces prevented its crews from reaching the injured inside the vehicle and forced them to leave the area before later allowing them to retrieve the four bodies — a man, a woman, and two children — along with the two injured children.
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