The "shocking news" is of the serious illness of the author's Israeli friend, Henry.
Three passages in this chapter are relevant to life and death in Palestine:
"When I arrived home, Ramallah was in mourning. The latest Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip had killed fourteen people in twenty-four hours, six from one family who last year had lost four of its members. Among the dead were two infants." (p. 182)
"That morning the body of a young man from the Jewish settlement of Itmar who was kidnapped and killed was found..." (p. 185)
The army arrested a masked young man who confessed. Then:
"The army stormed into Ramallah and arrested Hamas legislators and ministers..." (ibid.)
Henry emailed:
"...an Israeli
"Targeted assassination missile murdered a woman and her seven children:
"How can that be called war
"But bloody, bloody, bloody bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody revenge..." (pp. 187-188)
(I have reproduced the six repetitions of "bloody" and five commas from the text.)
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