Driven Together to Bring an End to Pain, Bitterness

Published June 11, 2008

At the height of the second Intifada almost eight years ago, Ali Abu Awwad was wounded by an Israeli settler who was randomly shooting at Palestinians on the street. At a hospital in Saudi Arabia, he received news that his elder brother, Yusuf, a young man, married with one son, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the entrance to their village of Beit Omar, a settlement between Hebron and Bethlehem.

"He...