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‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’
At a summer camp for kids from conflict zones, I met my brave, funny friend Aseel. He was Palestinian.
I was Israeli.
When he was killed by police, my hope for our future died with him.
- Roy Cohen
- The Guardian
On 11 May 2021, I was sitting with a small group in a cafe in southern Tel Aviv, studying Arabic.
Our teacher, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, had been telling us that he and his pregnant Jewish wife kept getting turned down by landlords who would not rent their property to a “mixed” couple.
We were almost at the end of the three-hour class when air raid sirens sounded.
A few days earlier, missiles had been launched from Gaza into Israel, but…