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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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