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On the afternoon of Saturday, April 4, 2011, Juliano Mare Chameas walked out of the Freedom Theatre in the Janine refugee camp and got into his old red Citraean.

It was four o'clock, the sun was hot, and the street crowded. He put his baby's son

Jay on his lap, placing the boy's fingers on the steering wheel. The babysitter sat next to them.

As he set off, a man in a balaclava came out of an alleyway and told him to stop.

He had a gun.

The babysitter told Giuliano to keep driving, but he stopped.

The gunman shot him five times, then walked back down the alley.

He left his mask in the street.

Jay survived.

The babysitter escaped with minor injuries.

When Israeli soldiers arrived less than 30 minutes later, Giuliano was dead.

They took his body to Israel, along with his car, computer, wallet, and other effects.

Giuliano was the founder of the Freedom Theater.

He was an Israeli citizen, the son of a Jewish mother, and therefore a Jew in the eyes of the Jewish state.

But his father was a Palestinian from Nazareth, and Juliano was a

passionate believer in the Palestinian cause. He would often say he was 100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish.

But in Israel, he was seldom allowed to forget that he was the son of an Arab, and in Janine,

he was seen as an Israeli, a Jew, no matter how much he did for the camp.

Among the artists and intellectuals of Ramallah, however, he was admired for having left Israel

to work in one of the toughest parts of the West Bank, and was accepted as an ally. Since its founding in 2006, the Freedom Theater had been under constant fire.

Local conservatives saw it as a corrupting influence, even a Zionist conspiracy.

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