Rita, a beautiful 8-year-old girl asks her mother to explain to her what does “critical condition” mean? Rita wanted to know more than what Wikipedia provides as definition of the word, as she tried to figure it out on her own. This little girl was earlier informed of the reason her dad never came back to pick her up from school on September 25 and that he was taken to hospital. Now, “critical condition” is the description she hears about him. All she knows is that he was fine when he dropped her off at school on the morning of that day.
Noura stares at her daughter’s face speechless, not being able to explain the meaning of the word to her. “I did not know what to tell her”; the words would not come out.
In sincere prayers, several Palestinian churches held mass to pray for Samer Arbeed, the 44-year-old Palestinian from Ramallah who was kidnapped from his car on September 25th, 2019 by four armed Israeli men in front of his wife.
