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Izzeldin Abuelaish: Can Palestinians still believe in forgiveness and peace?

Izzeldin Abuelaish's three daughters were killed in an Israeli tank strike in 2009. Twenty-two more of his family members died in the last month. Does he still believe in peace?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose three daughters and niece were killed in an Israeli tank strike on his home in the Gaza Strip in 2009. At the time, he said he felt no bitterness, and soon after he published his award-winning autobiography, I Shall not Hate. Now he has lost 22 more family members in the current bombardment. Is he still preaching his message of forgiveness and peace?

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