Yep. The gee-had is all fun and games until the various Muhammads gets shot.
Gaza protests: hope fades as weekly border clashes bring more carnage than change
Gaza protests: hope fades as weekly border clashes bring more carnage than change
Mohammed Bourdaini, 18, protests at the Israel-Gaza border in October 2018. He was hit in the leg by a bullet last month. ( Photography by The Washington Post )
Mohammed Mikdad used to spend his Friday afternoons at the fence that runs along Gaza’s border, taking part in weekly demonstrations against Israel. They were fun, he says, and he didn’t have much else to do.
But after being shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper in May, Mikdad, 35, has spent recent Fridays begging outside the local mosque, unable to continue his work as a doorman and struggling to support six children and service his debts.
Gaza protests: hope fades as weekly border clashes bring more carnage than change
Gaza protests: hope fades as weekly border clashes bring more carnage than change
Mohammed Bourdaini, 18, protests at the Israel-Gaza border in October 2018. He was hit in the leg by a bullet last month. ( Photography by The Washington Post )
Mohammed Mikdad used to spend his Friday afternoons at the fence that runs along Gaza’s border, taking part in weekly demonstrations against Israel. They were fun, he says, and he didn’t have much else to do.
But after being shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper in May, Mikdad, 35, has spent recent Fridays begging outside the local mosque, unable to continue his work as a doorman and struggling to support six children and service his debts.