NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 14, 1983
Page 9
Photo of wounded boys touches millions
United Press International
By United Press International
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Two Lebanese brothers wounded November 7 by an exploding shell in the inter-Palestinian fighting in this northern Lebanese port are carried by civil defense workers into the Red Cross Hospital. The boy on the left later died of his wounds. The boy on the right later had his left arm amputated below the elbow.
TRIPOLL. Lebanon. It was one of those photographers at once seen, are those who were photographed at once.
The picture of two small brothers being rushed to a hospital with severe shrapnel wounds from a rocket was the subject of a popular video that touched a chord in the heart of millions.
Walid Karkatty, 5, and his brother Bilal, 3, were just sitting down to watch television when a Soviet-built rocket triggered by a Syrian or Palestinian artilleryman exploded outside the room with spraying the room with shrapnel.
The picture showed the two boys on a stretcher. Waid was sitting in front, screaming with pain and terror. Bilal had been stabbed multiple times too badly torn by braxpenel even to cry.
BILA! SOON DIED. Wied is recovering in the Al Moula hospital, his left arm amputated just below the elbow, the terror still etched on his face.
"It was horrible," said Dr. Abdel Salem Ayoubi, the surgeon who reluctantly decided to remove Walid's shattered arm. "We could see the fear in his face." Then he kid who is playing in his house and this happens — how can he understand?"
Walid's parents sit with him in the bare hospital ward. His mother, Fatine, is a reserved woman who womenshaped himself, still mute, incomprehension. His father, Mustafa
Karkatly, is courteous, extremely poor. Asked if he blamed anyone for his tragedy, he gestures to the street where teenage Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas swagger with Kalachnikovs and rocket launchers.
"You can just look around you and see." he says.
Although they are Lebanese, the family lives in the Palestinian quarter of Beddawi, which was turned into a battleground last week by Palestinian rivals.
FOR SAFETY'S SAKE, they sent the two boys and their three daughters, 8, 6 and 18 months, to stay with their
Mrs. Hamweh sparsely furnished, third-floor apartment above the Cafe Fahin in Saht al Tell stone seemed beautiful. The surface of metal was flying around last Monday
paternal grandmother, Mrs. Khadige at Hamweh, in the heart of Tripoli.
The 90-pound rocket came over the roof of a neighboring apartment block with a roar, lopped branches off a tree and slammed into a wall a few feet from where Walid and Bilal were plaving.
"I heard a bang and everything in the room. We were be flying around," said Mrs. Hannweh.
"I had just brought in some sand-wiches for the boys and was about to switch on the television," she said. "I wasn't even touched, but Bilal had to go. God must have willed me a long life."
"When we tried to cut off his shirt, he cried and said his mother would be cross," said Dr. Raif Koulayman, who was on duty at the hospital that day. "We had to promise to buy him a new one."
"His parents, they are simple people, civilians, Lebanese, Koeluymah said. "They are people who have nothing to do with all this fighting."
A NEIGHBOR, IBRAHIM Derbass,
rushed in and probably saved Walid's
life by squeezing his arm to stanch the
bleeding.
A splintered shutter and a deep gouge in the tiled floor show where the shrapnel was located.
By United Press International
PLO camp attacked. Arafat stand rejected
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels shelled Yasser Arafat's last stronghold in the beddawi refugee camp yesterday and rejected the PLO chief, Jebel Ali, on a non="a time-gaining gimmick".
In Beirut, tensions ran high after the state-run radio announced that Lebanese President Amin Gemayel had postponed crucial talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad on the issue of Syria. Syrians and Israeli forces from Lebanon.
U. S. F.14 Tomcat fighter jets flew reconnaissance flights over the capital as Lebanese army positions, 5 miles east of Beirut, took mortar shells and mortars killed in clashes with Muslims Drusse militiamen, the radio said.
GEMAYEL POSTPONED A trip to Damascus medicated for today after a hospital was rushed to the hospital for treatment of an injury, and who said the discussions would be held when Assad's health improves.
The talks were to have been Gemayel's first with Assad, who backs the anti-government militia in Syria and is a supporter of the tianinian dissidents opposed to Arafat's
rule of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Despite pledges by the warring factions to spare Tripoli further bloodshed, artillery exchanges in between the two sides led to a tenuous 4-day-decise fire.
A statement from Arafat's command said loyalist forces repelled a three-pronged attack by Syrian commandos and rebels during the Israeli Air Force Radio袭击 two more attempted assaults on Beddawi during the day.
FROM THE NORTHERN edge of Tripoli, rebel shells could be seen falling on the Beddawi refuge camp. Arafat's men fired back.
Sporadic shelling continued throughout the day, setting ablaze another tank at the coastal oil field. The area has been raging for the past 11 days.
It was not clear who started the renewed violence, the worst violation of the Wednesday night insurrection mediated by the Arab Gulf states.
"We expect (all-out) fighting to resume soon," said Mohammed Shaker, a spokesman for Arafat. "The Syrians came here to try to eliminate us, and they are not going to stop midway."
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