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I'm Claire Malone.

You might remember a story from a little more than a year ago

when three college students were shot while walking down the street in Burlington, Vermont.

Burlington is generally known as a safe, very liberal college town.

The young men were Palestinians from the West Bank, attending schools in the Northeast.

Two of them were wearing kaffirs, the Palestinian headscarf,

and so the shooting was assumed by many people to be a hate crime,

though the suspect hasn't been charged with that by prosecutors.

The victims all survived. A reporter named Suzanne Gabbar has been talking with one of them

since shortly after the attack. His name is Hishem Aworteni. Susanne went to the West Bank recently

to visit the Alwarteni family and talk about what's on everyone's minds there,

the possibility that Israel will annex their home

and the entire West Bank.

Here's Suzanne Gabbar.

How often do you go back to the school since you graduated?

A few times.

Like, every time I'm back, I come once.

It seems like you're very close with the teachers.

Yeah, it's a small school.

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