On Saturday, Awartani, 20, was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot while visiting family in Burlington, Vermont. According to Price, her son was severely injured.
“The doctors are currently saying it’s unlikely he’ll be able to use his legs again,” Price tells NPR by phone from her home in Ramallah. “He’s confronting a life of disability, a potentially irreversible change to his life and what it means for his future.”
Awartani is studying mathematics and archaeology at Brown. He’s a graduate of the Ramallah Friends School, a Quaker-run K-12 school in the West Bank.
“I think it’s important for these boys to be seen as fully fledged people,” Price says. “They are the brightest of the brightest.”
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TEL AVIV, Israel — When the war began in Gaza following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas-led militants, the family of Hisham Awartani decided he should remain in the U.S., where he’s a student at Brown University, rather than return home for the holidays to Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
“My husband didn’t want Hisham to come back for Christmas,” says Awartani’s mother Elizabeth Price.
On Saturday, Awartani, 20, was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot while visiting family in Burlington, Vermont.
Because of the war and heightened security restrictions imposed by Israeli officials on Palestinians, the couple plans to cross by land into Jordan and then fly to the U.S. Their daughter will remain behind in the West Bank.
During a court appearance on Monday, he pleaded not guilty to three charges of attempted second-degree murder.
Price, a U.S. citizen with family in Vermont, notes that the shooting came after weeks of violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
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