Houston Chronicle · Houston, Texas · 8 June 2006
CP-2006-001
Trying to atone for deadly error
Israeli government takes an unexpected step and covers medical costs of a Palestinian family whose car was bombed by mistake · A family shattered
Transcribed from the clipping
“A FAMILY SHATTERED. Trying to atone for deadly error. Israeli government takes an unexpected step and covers medical costs of a Palestinian family whose car was bombed by mistake.”
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The clipping is the photograph, its caption and the headline stack; the story below was not clipped. The man in the photograph is not named, and neither are his mother, his wife or his son.
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"Trying to atone for deadly error," Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2006, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2006-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2006-001
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