“I kept calling his name, ‘Anas, Anas,’ and I saw them dragging him away.” He yelled out, asking his brother if he was all right. It was short: “The permit was revoked,” he wrote in an email, “for security reasons.”• This article is adapted from The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, published by Granta. We flagged a taxi to the mosque near the Palestine Polytechnic University, where the funeral of Anas al-Atrash would be held. The officer in charge of his interrogation asked him the same questions they had asked Ismail on the night that Anas was shot. “I stepped out of the car,” Ismail went on.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2016 04:52 UTC