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Al Jazeera Staff

‘Lucky to be alive’: The 12-year-old shot by Israeli snipers in Jerusalem

Iyas Abu Mufreh, 12, with his mother, Nisreen, and older brother, Amir, at his bedside in hospital in Jerusalem. He was shot just centimetres from his heart by Israeli snipers, leaving a vast wound in his shoulder which required emergency surgery [Al Jazeera]

Occupied East Jerusalem – A pizza box and a bullet hole. That was the only evidence left on al-Hardoub Street of the gruesome June 16 sniper attack on Uday Abu Juma’, 21, and Iyas Abu Mufreh, 12, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of at-Tur, after authorities swept the scene the following day.

Just before midnight, cousins Uday and Iyas had gathered with family members outside their grandfather’s home in at-Tur. The Abu Juma’ extended family had come together to celebrate their grandmother’s return from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. A daughter in the family had also scored highly on the Palestinian national “tawjihi” exams.

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