When a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy is killed in the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, it could have been just one more blip on the news: one more human tragedy that devastated a family and community, but rippled no further into the world's consciousness. But something extraordinary happened that turned Ahmed Khatib's tragic 2005 death into a gift of hope for six Israeli children.
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