I found this picture to be so disturbing. Not sure if it was posed or not, but either way, the kid's reaction is genuine. And what kind of 'toy guns' are those? I'm pretty sure there's not a Toys 'R Us on the Gaza Strip, but whatever they are selling there wouldn't make the Fisher Price line-up here in the States. It is hard to imagine growing up immersed in such a culture of violence. I don't offer up any solutions; just the same concern that has been echoed for decades now. These aren't the shadow puppets of our youth.
A Palestinian boy reacts as youths point their toy guns at him, in an alley in the West Bank refugee camp of Al-Amari in Ramallah, on June 16. --Muhammed Muheisen / AP
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So very sad...
Makes you grateful for where we live huh?
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