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Lauren Frayer

What the resumption of Israel-Hamas fighting means for Palestinians in Israeli jails

Rimah Shahada poses in her daughter Aseel's bedroom in Qalandiya refugee camp in Ramallah, West Bank Nov. 22. (Maya Levin for NPR)

LONDON and RAMALLAH, Israeli-occupied West Bank — Rimah Shahada's living room is filled with deflated balloons.

For the past week, she'd been preparing a homecoming celebration — with balloons, stuffed animals and welcome home cards — for her 17-year-old daughter, Aseel, who's been in an Israeli prison hospital since Nov. 11. Aseel was shot in the leg that day by Israeli soldiers, who said she lunged at them with scissors at a military checkpoint near the refugee camp where the Shahada family lives, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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