A Prayer for the Dying
Tuesday, June 1, 2004
"O Allah, make us like our freedom fighters,
who have become martyrs in Your path."(A prayer made in the Al-Huda wa al-Nur Kindergarten, Gaza)
GAZA is a grimy city with unkempt streets. The unemployed crowd along the narrow streets. Six thousand years ago, this city at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea was a port and important trading hubthe crossroads of the Horus Route, as one historian put it. But that was the past. Its place
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