A bereaved father in Gaza tries to will his son back from the dead
Israel
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The boy was dead, limp and bloodied on the floor of a morgue, the latest casualty in Gaza . But his father could not let go. “He’s sleeping. He’ll wake up now. There’s nothing wrong with him. He’s fine,” Yusuf Zawara said Saturday. “I’m just cleaning his face. He’s sleepy. He didn’t sleep all night because of the bombing.” There was dust in the bereaved father’s hair and blood on his clothes. As he knelt over his son in Shifa Hospital, deep in denial, the
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