During his 25 days in the hospital, Mahmoud Salah, 14, was also under detention: His father couldn’t see him, and for half the time, his mother was allotted 30 minutes daily.

He’s sleeping on the living-room sofa. It’s early afternoon. His parents explain that he returned from his hydrotherapy treatment exhausted. His face is buried in the sofa, one leg lies on the armrest, while the stump of his leg, amputated below the knee, rest on the cushion. The crutches are on the floor.

It’s hard to wake him up, almost impossible. He has a trendy haircut, he’s wearing a hip T-shirt, and on the foot of his one good leg, which is thin, he’s wearing a fashionable sneaker. This teen is immersed deep in a siesta.

Trauma still grips the members of this household in the town of Al-Khader near Bethlehem – the shooting, the wound, the amputation and the boy’s 25 days in hospital under detention, without his father and with soldiers who kept his mother from his bedside for half of that period. Twice they even asked the police to throw her out of the hospital.

A boy loses a leg after being shot by soldiers, and his parents aren’t allowed to be with him. His father, a construction worker with a long-term entry permit to enter Israel and stay overnight, was nonetheless considered a security risk and was prevented from seeing his son. At the hospital, the soldiers let his mother into his room for half an hour a day during the most difficult period, medically, of his hospitalization-detention.

Amazingly, when the boy was released from hospital, the soldiers left and the detention of the dangerous terrorist also ended. The military court at Ofer Prison let him out on bail of 1,000 shekels ($283). His mother says that all her 57 years don’t match the 25 days of torment she spent outside her son’s room in the children’s ward of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, without being able to look after him properly.

Mahmoud Salah, 14, is in the 9th grade. His older brother Ahmed, 36, is the father of a baby and his wife is pregnant. Ahmed has been in Ofer Prison since April but no one knows why.

The family lives in a nice apartment in Al-Khader, the separation wall looming on the nearby hill. The father, Hussein, who is 60, worked in Israel until the incident. On the day his son was shot, he was working in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv. His wife, Aisha, is a homemaker.

They have two sons and four daughters, two of whom, Amira and Amina, flew in from abroad after their little brother was shot, detained and then discharged from the hospital. Amira lives in Saudi Arabia, Amina in the United States. The granddaughter, Jori, who arrived with her mother from Saudi Arabia, is watching a cartoon on her mother’s phone, very loudly.

May 21. Ramadan. Mahmoud woke up late, in the afternoon. After the iftar meal ending the fast day, he showered and went out. It was about 9 P.M. Half an hour later, two boys his age showed up at the house, frightened and distraught, to tell Mahmoud’s mother that he had been wounded.

Aisha was home with her 13-year-old daughter Ala. Her husband was sleeping over in Petah Tikva at the construction site where he worked. Arwa, the fourth daughter, who lives nearby, said afterward she had heard shooting from the direction of the wall but took no notice. No one imagined that Mahmoud had been shot.

He’s sleeping on the living-room sofa. It’s early afternoon. His parents explain that he returned from his hydrotherapy treatment exhausted. His face is buried in the sofa, one leg lies on the armrest, while the stump of his leg, amputated below the knee, rest on the cushion. The crutches are on the floor.

It’s hard to wake him up, almost impossible. He has a trendy haircut, he’s wearing a hip T-shirt, and on the foot of his one good leg, which is thin, he’s wearing a fashionable sneaker. This teen is immersed deep in a siesta.

Trauma still grips the members of this household in the town of Al-Khader near Bethlehem – the shooting, the wound, the amputation and the boy’s 25 days in hospital under detention, without his father and with soldiers who kept his mother from his bedside for half of that period. Twice they even asked the police to throw her out of the hospital.

A boy loses a leg after being shot by soldiers, and his parents aren’t allowed to be with him. His father, a construction worker with a long-term entry permit to enter Israel and stay overnight, was nonetheless considered a security risk and was prevented from seeing his son. At the hospital, the soldiers let his mother into his room for half an hour a day during the most difficult period, medically, of his hospitalization-detention.

Amazingly, when the boy was released from hospital, the soldiers left and the detention of the dangerous terrorist also ended. The military court at Ofer Prison let him out on bail of 1,000 shekels ($283). His mother says that all her 57 years don’t match the 25 days of torment she spent outside her son’s room in the children’s ward of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, without being able to look after him properly.

Mahmoud Salah, 14, is in the 9th grade. His older brother Ahmed, 36, is the father of a baby and his wife is pregnant. Ahmed has been in Ofer Prison since April but no one knows why.

The family lives in a nice apartment in Al-Khader, the separation wall looming on the nearby hill. The father, Hussein, who is 60, worked in Israel until the incident. On the day his son was shot, he was working in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv. His wife, Aisha, is a homemaker.

They have two sons and four daughters, two of whom, Amira and Amina, flew in from abroad after their little brother was shot, detained and then discharged from the hospital. Amira lives in Saudi Arabia, Amina in the United States. The granddaughter, Jori, who arrived with her mother from Saudi Arabia, is watching a cartoon on her mother’s phone, very loudly.

May 21. Ramadan. Mahmoud woke up late, in the afternoon. After the iftar meal ending the fast day, he showered and went out. It was about 9 P.M. Half an hour later, two boys his age showed up at the house, frightened and distraught, to tell Mahmoud’s mother that he had been wounded.

Aisha was home with her 13-year-old daughter Ala. Her husband was sleeping over in Petah Tikva at the construction site where he worked. Arwa, the fourth daughter, who lives nearby, said afterward she had heard shooting from the direction of the wall but took no notice. No one imagined that Mahmoud had been shot.