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Palestinian victim of Vermont shooting is paralysed, family says

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One of the college students of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont last weekend has been left paralysed from the chest down, his family has said.

Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, all age 20 and attending colleges in the eastern US, were visiting Awartani’s family in during the Thanksgiving break. The three men, who all grew up in the West Bank, were out for

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