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28.3.04
A few weeks before the latest attempt, the soldiers succeeded in wounding him, but he managed to escape despite his wounds, and now they have missed him again. But there is no question that they are closing in on him. He knows it. And the signs of this knowledge are readily apparent. The slight trembling in his hands whenever he answers his mobile phone, after hesitating; his tired eyes; his nervousness during the entire course of the long conversation; the glance at the window every time he hears a suspicious noise; and the smile that is weaker and rarer than ever.
"I'm dead, I know that I'm dead." He says that he feels an obligation to the families of the Palestinian victims to continue with the struggle, and compares it to the obligation felt by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz after every Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel. Maybe he would like to stop - about half a year ago he became the young father of Mohammed, nicknamed Hamoudi - but he is mired too deeply in this struggle.
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