The mother of a Palestinian 6-year-old who was allegedly stabbed 26 times by a landlord wrote about the slaughter just hours after getting stabbed a dozen times herself.
, the 6-year-old Palestinian-American who was stabbed to death in a Chicago suburb this weekend, posted about the attack on Facebook just hours after it took place on Saturday.
The Daily Beast first reported on Wadea’s final words Sunday, after interviewing Oday El-Fayoume, the child’s father and Shaheen’s ex-husband. Oday told The Daily Beast the family had gotten along well with the landlord, who lives on the top floor of their home, ahead of the attack—and he’d even built the child a treehouse before his death.
The little boy is set to be buried in Plainfield, Illinois, on Monday. Nazmi Hannon, a close family friend who described the father as a “brother” to him, spoke to The Daily Beast from the site of a funeral service on Monday. “We will not retaliate. We hope nothing like this happens to another child. No Palestinian, no Jewish child. No family should go through this kind of pain,” he said, adding “this will not stand in this community.”
Dr. Omar Suleiman, the founder of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, insisted that “we can not ignore the greater environment of hate that has been enabled by every single structure around us right now.”
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