Word: farid
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...recount two decades filled with ever-more-violent incidents of humiliation and brutality. The military police, he says, arrested and tortured his father and uncle. They eventually arrested Said, who at 16 had joined the ranks of the young intifadeh rebels. His mother, trying to stop her youngest son, Farid, from hurling stones at Israeli tanks, is said to have been shot in the forehead and killed. Released after four years in jail, Said says he made a life for himself, working as a joiner. He dreamed of happy years to come, of marriage and family: "The freedom which...
...room lined with iron beds. Squatting around a smoky hurricane lamp we eat a meal of stale bread dunked in thin soup and drink strong black tea. After finishing, two of the boys turn to karambol, a game like pool in which flat counters are flicked across a board. Farid, another section commander, sits intently loading an ammunition belt with machine-gun rounds. Allah Mahmad lounges on one of the beds and talks wistfully of wanting the kind of education for his four sons that he never got. "Right now the two eldest are being taught by mullahs," he says...