"A Day in the Life of Abed Salama”: How the Death of Abed’s 5-Year-Old Son Sheds Light on Life Under Israeli Apartheid
"A Day in the Life of Abed Salama”: How the Death of Abed’s 5-Year-Old Son Sheds Light on Life Under Israeli Apartheid
We spend the hour with Nathan Thrall and Abed Salama, the author and subject of a remarkable new book detailing the many bureaucratic barriers and indignities that make the lives of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation even more difficult. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerus...
The story of the 2012 death of the 5-year-old Milad, who was killed in a fiery bus crash during a school field trip to a theme park in Israel.
What followed was a desperate daylong search by his father Abed Salama and his family to locate Milad’s body across different cities and hospitals across the country, encountering numerous barriers due to the Israeli occupation system, like different ID cards giving varying levels of access through military checkpoints, and lack of help from any Israeli authorities.
“This awful event allowed me, in telling the story, to describe the entire elaborate system of segregation and subjugation and apartheid in which all of these people live,” says author Nathan Thrall, who wrote a book based upon this story.
Just awful. Poor boy. Poor family. The whole regime is evil.