Saturday, November 12, 2005

Life and Hope Flow From Palestinian Boy's Death

washingtonpost.com

In Peace Overture, Family Donates Organs to Israeli Patients

By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, November 12, 2005; A01

JENIN, West Bank -- A photo of a slightly smiling Ahmed Khatib has joined the martyr posters on the walls of the refugee camp here. But the 12-year-old boy is shown cradling a guitar instead of the assault rifles brandished in the grim tributes around him. A large red question mark appears at the bottom.

"Why the Palestinian children are killed?" it asks in stilted English.

Ismail Khatib and his wife, Abla, have offered a response that has drawn praise from Israeli leaders and challenged Palestinians in this cramped refugee camp, a focal point of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years. (more)

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