Twilight Zone--It's From Allah, the Soldier Said--Gideon Levy

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"They divided the nights between them. He went to sleep early and got up in the middle of the night so his wife could sleep for a few hours. Day and night, they never took their eyes off their sick baby. Khaled, their youngest child, was now five months old and very sick. From the age of four weeks he had had episodes of shortness of breath and a trembling that seized his entire little body. Every two to three weeks, they had to rush him to the hospital in Ramallah. He would be placed in an oxygen tent for a few hours before being discharged. That is is how the doctors saved him, time after time. When he gets a little bigger, the doctors told them, he will require surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain.
The parents, Sana and Daoud Fakih, had already lost two children to illness, seven years apart. Having known such sorrow, they never left their precious Khaled alone for a moment.

"That's how it was exactly three weeks ago, as well, on Thursday night. Daoud went to bed early, at 7 P.M., in anticipation of getting up later to relieve Sana. Slightly after midnight, she woke him. Khaled was having another attack of shortness of breath and convulsions.

"Their village, Kufr Ayn, is impressive to look at. Its houses sit on a hilltop overlooking a lush valley in the heart of the West Bank, north-west of Ramallah, about halfway from there to Qalqilyah. The narrow road leading up to the village passes through olive groves and by the neighboring villages of Beit Rima and Qarwat Bani Zeid. The Palestinian who hitches a ride with us at the intersection tells us about Muwafiz Rimawi, 34, a man from her village who was seriously injured in an accident at his home and delayed at the Atara checkpoint for about half an hour, until he eventually died from the bleeding in his brain. This was about a month ago.

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