Well it's currently 4:54AM and I doubt that I'll get too much more sleep tonight. The insomnia all of us new parents are feeling cannot be matched by the sadness this mother must have felt when her innocent son was shot and killed by soldiers. Her response is an example to all of us. Here is the article I found a little while ago, detailing how this mother reacted:
Israelis receive organs of slain Palestinian boy
In a gesture they hope will foster peace, the parents of a young Palestinian boy killed by Israeli soldiers have donated his organs for transplants in Israel.
Ahmed Khatib, 12, was shot by Israeli soldiers last Thursday, during a military raid in Jenin.
Like so many children across the West Bank, Khatib was playing with a toy gun when Israeli soldiers were hunting militants. Mistaking his toy for a real gun, they shot him in the head and chest.
He died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital on Saturday.
Ahmed's mother says the decision to donate her son's organs was made Sunday as a tribute to his brother, who died at 24 while waiting for a liver transplant. But the desire to help others -- regardless of nationality or political beliefs -- is also directed at sustaining Ahmed's spirit.
"We made the decision to show we want peace -- even if they're Jewish," she said in Arabic. "This way I feel he is still alive."
A chronic shortage of donor organs in Israel is typically explained by Jewish religious taboos against the practice.
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