Do babies become martyrs?

Rania has managed to fit so much pain into her 31 years of life that one begins to understand, once again, why the mountains in the Quran declined to bear the burden of servitude. And yet, as Rania recounts what she has lived through, almost as if telling an ordinary story, you find yourself at a loss, unsure where to look or how to respond. Her husband, Ahmad, spent 26 months in the prisons of terrorist Israel, subjected to torture. “He was a gentle man when he went in,” she says. “When he came out, neither could we recognize him, nor could he remember us. The occupiers’ torture turned him into a baby, someone who had lost his mind, who didn’t even know his own name.”