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Al Jazeera
Politics
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

Omar Assad’s family says ‘unjust’ US decision will not end push for justice

Palestinian American Omar Assad, far left, with his nephew Assad Assad, second from left, and other relatives in 2018 in the West Bank village of Jiljilya [Courtesy Assad Assad]

Assad Assad says he and his family feel betrayed.

But more than that, the Palestinian American said his first reaction to the United States government’s decision to continue funding an Israeli army unit that bound his elderly uncle and left him for dead could be summed up in a single word: “devastation”.

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