With the war in Gaza drawing down, Palestinians worry the Israeli military will turn its attention to the West Bank
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hadi Dabaya’s body bears the scars of the Israeli occupation. The 54-year-old proudly stuck out his jaw to show the chunk of his cheek torn away by Israeli fire and traced the zigzag scar on his arm, the pink, raised flesh marking the bullet’s path through his body.
“I got these in the second intifada,” said Dabaya, beaming. He pulled up a video of himself a year earlier confronting an Israeli personnel carrier in Jenin camp wielding only a flip-flop.
As he spoke, an Israeli military truck rumbled by. This time he only stared as it passed, not daring to approach.
