During my first week at the hospital I was witness to the first hand brutality against the people of Palestine. A bed was wheeled into my room by two young Israeli soldiers wearing identification badges of the Military Police. In the bed was a young boy, both legs in casts and signs of beatings on his head and face.

I innocently asked the soldiers what was going on…. and was quickly informed that the boy was a ‘terrorist’ and is in their custody until he is able to leave the hospital and go to a military prison. “Terrorist” I declared….. you guys are holding loaded machine guns while he is strapped to a bed all broken up from head to foot!!! He has a bullet in each of his legs and you say he’s the terrorist…The response was that “he threw stones at an army jeep”. I asked where the jeep was at the time and they told me it was in a small Palestinian village just outside of Bethlehem.