Tragedy Strikes: Palestinian Students Targeted in Vermont Shooting

Three Palestinian friends, Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, who had recently been accepted to American universities, were shot by a white man while on their way to Thanksgiving dinner in Burlington, Vermont. Awartani was left potentially paralyzed, and the incident has raised concerns about the rise in violence against Muslim and Arab people in the US. The shooting is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The friends, who have been close since childhood, have been supporting each other during their recovery in the hospital.