Far away from the war in Gaza, three Palestinian college students were enjoying their Thanksgiving break in Vermont, celebrating not just the holiday but a pair of family birthdays.
“If you’re in college, who wants to go to an 8-year-old’s birthday party? But these three guys did,” said Rich Price, who hosted his nephew and two friends for the long weekend.
Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, all age 20, were out for a walk Saturday after the party for Price’s twin sons when a man approached them. Shooting them without saying a word, he left them seriously injured and shattered their families’ sense that they would be safer in the U.S. than in the war-torn region where they grew up.
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