GAZA CITY- A mentally disabled Palestinian was shot at an Israeli Checkpoint and his family was not notified for days.
When Anwar saw news footage of his brother lying wounded at a checkpoint, days after the incident, he was relieved. At least he was alive.
Fifty-five-year-old Abdel Nasser Halawa is deaf from birth, and he also suffers from intellectual disabilities. For a week he was hospitalized in room No. 7142 in the orthopedic ward of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, after being shot at the Qalandiyah checkpoint, without anyone from his family being allowed to visit him.
Worse, for nearly three days his family had no idea what happened to him at that busy crossing between Jerusalem and the northern West Bank.
They feared for his fate.