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Ayman Nobani

‘He didn’t want to die’: Mourning Palestinian teenager Faris Abu Samra

Relatives mourn the death of teenager Faris Abu Samra during his funeral procession in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank on July 27, 2023 [Ayman Nobani/Al Jazeera]

Qalqilya, occupied West Bank – Although he was just 14 years old, Faris Abu Samra was “a man in every sense of the word”, his father, Sharhabeel, said.

“He was older than his age. He was my companion, my heart and the mastermind at work,” Sharhabeel told Al Jazeera on Friday, a day after Israeli forces shot his son in the head during an incursion in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya.

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