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Editorial: The killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume shows anguish in Middle East threatens tolerance at home

Children's toys sit outside the Plainfield Township home on Oct. 15, 2023, where police say the landlord allegedly stabbed a 6- year-old boy to death and seriously injured his 32- year-old mother a few days earlier.

It hardly should be necessary to condemn the killing of a 6-year-old boy, but the death of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a student at Central Elementary School in Plainfield, Illinois, is too disturbing to ignore.

Wadea was stabbed 26 times on Saturday and later pronounced dead after an attack that also seriously wounded his mother. The child was targeted by

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