Isthmus: Madison hosts Gaza victim
UW Hospital is treating young man injured in Israeli attack
Esty Dinur, Isthmus, 07/30/2009
Ahmed Abu Salama, at Ronald McDonald House, with his mother, Karima: ‘There’s pain in my heart.’ (Credit: Mary Langenfeld)Ahmed Abu Salama is in a wheelchair, in the basement of Madison’s Ronald McDonald House. He and his mother have been here since late May, receiving care from UW Hospital. Their ordeal began a year and a half ago and is continuing.
“There’s pain in my heart,” says Ahmed, 17. “I can’t walk. I have limited movement.”
Asked to describe what happened to him, he declines: “I can’t talk about the injury. It’s too painful.”
Ahmed is wearing shorts and a tank top. His mother, Karima Abu Salama, is wearing a long black dress with red, purple and yellow embroidery, the kind women make in Jebalya refugee camp, their home in the Gaza Strip. Her hair is covered with a beautiful purple headscarf, also embroidered.
It is she who tells the story. [continued]
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