One boy, lying wounded on a stretcher, seems happy to have acquired his bullet badge of honor and still be alive. The next boy is not so lucky. He is shot in the face and chest. The doctors are cutting off his clothes. The crowd cranes to see what's going on.
More ambulances arrive.
Wounded are O.K., but martyrs are better because martyrs produce the media images that create the most pressure on Israel. This war is sick, but it has exposed some basic truths. First, the Israeli propaganda that the Palestinians mostly rule themselves in the West Bank is fatuous nonsense. Sure, the Palestinians control their own towns, but the Israelis control all the roads connecting these towns and therefore all their movements. Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land for more settlements is going on to this day seven years into Oslo.