Boy slain in crossfire is hailed as martyr

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Boy slain in crossfire is hailed as martyr Palestinian mom sees death on TV Knight Ridder Newspapers Mohammed's death, it was not entirely clear who fired the fatal shots, though Pales- tinians blamed the Israelis.

Amal said Mohammed had gone with his father to shop BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, for a used car in Gaza City Gaza Strip - Like viewers on Saturday morning, be- around the world, Amal Al- dura watched her terrified cause his parents didn't want him to get swept up with son die on television as his other children who might be father tried to shield him from Israeli gunfire. inclined to watch or join in "I went crazy.

I was the riots that began in Gaza on Friday. screaming and crying," the 34-year-old mother of seven Family members said that said Sunday, as dozens of when father and son were mourners filled the bare con- coming home, without a new car, their taxi was stopped at crete house where her boy an Israeli roadblock at Net- Mohammed Jamal Aldura zarim junction.

The shooting was born 12 years ago. started. just as the two Now, as her husband lies headed hand-in-hand across critically wounded in a the intersection to get a taxi nearby hospital, Amal is se- on the other side.

For 40 dated. minutes, they were trapped Outside, Mohammed's face by the gunfire. is already emblazoned on After the boy was hit, his posters calling him the "Mar- father yelled, "My son is tyr of al-Aqsa." The morning dying, my son is dying," but paper published a sequence of photos no one could get to them. showing him The Israeli army crouched behind a cement has block Saturday and then cut opened an investigation into Mohammed's death, which a down by a hail of bullets.

Mohammed's mother and spokesmen called a "horrible tragedy." his brother and cousins re- Mohammed's mother said member him as an active, outgoing boy who liked to she takes comfort that her child is in paradise because play soccer, go for a ride with his dad or run errands he died a martyr's death.

But for older relatives who she does not believe her son's death will change anything. worked in the neighborhood. The Israeli army said *We're used to this, Once in a while people die. But Mohammed and his father everything goes on as usual," Jamal were among the pro- she said. testers who assaulted their outpost outside a Jewish set- tlement in Gaza.

In The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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"Boy slain in crossfire is hailed as martyr," Arizona Republic, 2 October 2000. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2000-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2000-025

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