This West Bank teen feared he wouldn't survive the year.
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he → fear → year
Omar Nassan, 17, spoke to CBC News in April and was killed amid violence in September
The cemetery in the West Bank village of Al Mughayyir is dotted with burial sites draped with the Palestinian flag, marking the graves of local men and boys killed in clashes over the years with Israeli settlers and Israeli security forces.
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cemetery → speak → settlers
It was one of the places 17-year-old Omar Nassan insisted that CBC News visit back in April.
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News → insist → April
Omar was a student at the local boys' school where a gunman, later identified as an Israeli military reservist, opened fire this spring, killing two Palestinians: 32-year-old Jihad Abu Naim and 14-year-old Aws al-Nassan.
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gunman → identify → Palestinians
Both now lay in that small cemetery overlooking hills, fields and a busy roadway.
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Both → lie → hills
Omar and Aws had been good friends, and he talked about life in Al Mughayyir with a deep sense of frustration and fatalism.
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he → talk → frustration
It can’t get more dangerous.
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It → get → ?
"To be honest, I didn’t tell this to anyone … but I already accepted death.
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I → tell → death
I’m going to be dead," Omar said.
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Omar → go → ?
"I lost my friend and he’s not the first first friend I lose, whether it’s getting killed or in prison.
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it → lose → prison
He’s not the first or the last friend I lose, so I already accept death.
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I → ’ → death
I’m going to be next."
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I → go → ?
Omar said many young men in the village felt the same way.
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men → say → way
The stress of life in the Occupied West Bank, combined with the constant threat of violence, had worn them down.
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stress → combine → them
"It can’t get more dangerous," he said.
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he → get → ?
"We’re used to that now.
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We → ’re → that
It’s our life."
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It → ’ → ?
Omar’s words on that April afternoon proved tragically prescient.
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words → prove → afternoon
The cemetery in the village of Al Mughayyir is dotted with burial sites draped with the Palestinian flag, marking the graves of local men and boys killed in clashes with Israeli settlers and Israeli security forces.
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cemetery → dot → settlers
A violent night
On the evening of Sept. 2, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) deployed troops to Al Mughayyir to back up Israeli police responding to a disturbance over missing livestock.
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Forces → deploy → livestock
Palestinian villagers routinely accuse Israeli settlers of stealing sheep and allowing their own flocks to graze on Palestinian land.
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flocks → accuse → land
Prosecutors charge Israeli settler for killing Palestinian activist in West Bank
Gunman kills 1, wounds 5 in drive-by attacks in Israel near West Bank border
The IDF says it was brought in to retrieve animals owned by Israeli civilians when a violent riot broke out.
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riot → charge → civilians
In a statement, the military says soldiers encountered what it calls "terrorists" hurling cinderblocks and stones.
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it → say → cinderblocks
The soldiers fired on what the IDF calls "key instigators" and that "hits were identified."
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hits → fire → what
Two young Palestinians died that night: 16-year-old Khalil Abu Alia and 17-year-old Omar Nassan.
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Omar’s family says he was shot just outside their home in Al Mughayyir.
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he → say → Mughayyir
His father, Mohammad Nassan, says his son was struck by three bullets and managed to stumble a few steps before crumpling to the ground.
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son → say → ground
He says an ambulance took his son to hospital but medics were unable to save his life.
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medics → say → life
"My back is broken," Nassan said of his son’s death, in an interview with CBC News.
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Nassan → break → News
"He helped me in every detail of my life.
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He → help → life
Omar Nassan's parents, Mohammad and Rania, say their son was struck by three bullets during a melee between Israeli Defence Forces and Palestinian protesters in September.
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son → say → September
Omar’s mother, Rania, says her son loved to eat, did well at school and had a natural talent for working with computers.
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son → say → computers
Omar learned English, she says, at school in her native country, Egypt.
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she → learn → country
On the night Omar died, Rania Nassan says she heard screaming and chanting outside her home and rushed to lock the door.
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she → die → door
She says Omar ran after her and begged her to let him go downstairs to see what was happening.
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what → say → her
She relented.
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She → relent → ?
"I opened the door and told him to take care of himself," she said.
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she → open → himself
As the melee in the street continued, Rania says she began receiving text messages from neighours saying Omar had been injured.
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Omar → continue → neighours
Women from the village eventually came to tell her that he was dead.
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he → come → her
"I felt that my soul was separated," Rania said, describing that moment.
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Rania → feel → moment
…and 17 more, not listed.
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