"VITTERT: Real simple. 2012, I'm a foreign correspondent for Fox and you know, normally when you're when you're based in Jerusalem, you're covering suicide bombings. You're covering protests in the West Bank, or riots in the West Bank, on, and on, and on. Because of the Arab Spring, I really hadn't spent that much time in Israel and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was not a thing in those years."
"and including a woman named Wafaa, and Wafaa had been a woman in the West Bank-, a woman in Gaza. She had pulled a pot of boiling water over herself when she was like five or six years old The Israelis treat most of the people out of Gaza who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries. She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four or five years in Israel, but has a past to get in and out of Israel."
A foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem covered suicide bombings, West Bank protests, and Gaza incidents before the Arab Spring reduced direct exposure to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A prisoner exchange returned Israeli captive Gilad Shalit and roughly a thousand Gaza prisoners, including Sinwar and a woman named Wafaa. Wafaa suffered catastrophic burns as a child and received four to five years of medical treatment in Israel before returning to Gaza with rare travel privileges. After returning, Wafaa was recruited to become a suicide bomber during the Second Intifada. Such individual stories complicated simplistic two-state assumptions.
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