Muslim Boy, 6, Is Mourned After Illinois Attack Linked to Mideast War

Muslim Boy, 6, Is Mourned After Illinois Attack Linked to Mideast War — New York Times

At the front of an Illinois mosque, a short white coffin was draped in a Palestinian flag.

The boy inside, a 6-year-old soccer fan named Wadea Al-Fayoume, was too young to have understood the complicated politics of his parents’ Palestinian homeland, or of this country that he was being raised in. But, the authorities in suburban Chicago said, he was a casualty of those divisions nonetheless.

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