The Atlanta Constitution · 10 July 2023
CP-2023-092
Farewells punctuate deadly period in West Bank
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A14 REHEAILANIA JOUKNAL CONSHIUTION UNDERSTANDING WEST BANK CONFLICT Farewells punctuate deadly period in West Bank 'Don't be sad, father. I wished for martyrdom and I received it. A portralt of Amr Khamour, a 14-year-ol killed during an Israell army rald, is displayed at his home in Dheisheh Camp, In the Israell-occupled West Bank.
In one of the deadllest periods in years in the area, young Palestinians drawn into the struggle against Israel are writing farewell messages to their loved ones.
PHOTOS BY SAMAR HAZBOUN/THE NEW YORK TIMES Raja Abdulrahim and Hiba Yazbek | c.2023 The New York Times DHEISHEH CAMP, WEST BANK efore Amr Khamour, 14, was killed, shot twice by Israeli troops as he hurled stones at a military jeep in his January, his parents found a photograph of a handwritten farewell message on his phone.
"If 1 come to you a martyr, God willing, " he wrote his mother, "don't cry.
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"Farewells punctuate deadly period in West Bank," The Atlanta Constitution, 10 July 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-092. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-092
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