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Article: Films on Israelis, Palestinians a feature at human rights film fest
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- June 13, 2003
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Ephross, Peter
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
06-13-2003
NEW YORK, June 12 (JTA) -- A young Israeli terror victim lies on her
hospital bed, her head swathed in bandages.
"It's really awkward because we are injured by the terrorists, and the
terrorists themselves are treated here -- being guarded by soldiers, our
soldiers," the woman says. "It's really awkward. I wish I could choke them
to death. But they won't let me."
Then, in a matter-of-fact manner, she describes how she was injured by a
terrorist bomb in a coffee shop.
Such painful honesty lies at the heart of "Welcome to Hadassah Hospital,"
one of several films on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict showing at this
year's Human Rights Watch ...