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From New York, this is Democracy Now. My son, Miller, he was only five years old.

He was a cute boy, a cool boy, a funny boy. Today, we spend the hour looking at the

devastating reality for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. We'll speak to a Palestinian

father whose five-year-old son, Milad, died in a fiery bus crash on a school field trip.

A bed, Salama's quest to find out what happened to his boy was immediately hindered because he

was a Palestinian living on the wrong side of the Israeli separation wall. Abid will join us

along with the journalist Nathan Thrall, author of the new book, A Day in the Life of Abid Salama,

Anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy. The aim of the book is to immerse people viscerally in the

lives of Palestinians living on the other side of this wall and to make them feel and understand

what that life is like. And one of the things that struck me more than anything as I was working on it

was how much pain there is just beneath the surface in every single Palestinian family.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to democracynowdemocracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

On Capitol Hill, two Republican leaders emerge Wednesday as leading contenders to replace Kevin

McCarthy as Speaker of the House. A day after his ouster by far-right Republicans brought

Congress to a standstill. One contender is Ohio Congress member Jim Jordan, chair of the House

Judiciary Committee, leader of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. Former wrestlers at Ohio State

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