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May God have mercy on the “Lion Cub of Palestine,” Fares Odeh. On October 29, 2000, an Associated Press photojournalist captured an image of Fares Odeh standing alone before a tank, a stone in his hand and his arm drawn back to throw it. Ten days later, on November 8, Odeh was again throwing stones at the Al-Muntar crossing when occupation soldiers shot him in the neck, and he fell as a martyr. Subsequently, both the boy and the photograph attained iconic status within the Palestinian territories, serving as a symbol of resistance against Israel’s occupation of the region.
I named my youngest son Fares out of love for the “Fares of Palestine.”
