A Palestinian father wonders why the Israeli army had to kill his 14-year-old-son By Amira Hass

A Palestinian father wonders why the Israeli army had to kill his 14-year-old son

For Arkan Muzhir’s 15th birthday on August 20, his father Thaer planned to buy him a phone. The elder Muzhir uses the Hebrew word for cellphone, pelefon. But four weeks before his son’s birthday, during a raid on the Deheisheh refugee camp before dawn on Monday July 23, an Israeli soldier shot Arkan.