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"JERUSALEM - Six-year-old Maria Aman from Gaza sat in a wheelchair in the Israeli first-grade class, a respirator tube in her neck and a bright pink school bag by her side, calling out the name of an animal drawn on the blackboard by a girl.
"Cat!" Maria shouted in Hebrew, adding her voice to the chorus of responses.
Maria was left paralyzed from the neck down last year when an Israeli missile that killed a Palestinian militant in his vehicle in Gaza City sent shrapnel tearing through her family's car, which was next to the target. Maria's mother, older brother, grandmother and uncle were killed.
Taken to Israel for treatment, Maria was moved to Alyn Hospital, a rehabilitation center for children in Jerusalem, where she has learned to guide her motorized wheelchair, use a computer and draw, using head and neck muscles she can still control. She has learned Hebrew, and has begun attending a bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-girl_greenbergoct16,1,7448612.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
"Cat!" Maria shouted in Hebrew, adding her voice to the chorus of responses.
Maria was left paralyzed from the neck down last year when an Israeli missile that killed a Palestinian militant in his vehicle in Gaza City sent shrapnel tearing through her family's car, which was next to the target. Maria's mother, older brother, grandmother and uncle were killed.
Taken to Israel for treatment, Maria was moved to Alyn Hospital, a rehabilitation center for children in Jerusalem, where she has learned to guide her motorized wheelchair, use a computer and draw, using head and neck muscles she can still control. She has learned Hebrew, and has begun attending a bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-girl_greenbergoct16,1,7448612.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
