Martyrs' crossing

Description:

An Israeli lieutenant and a Palestinian woman find themselves on opposite sides when rioting breaks out after the lieutenant refuses to let the woman and her sick child through a checkpoint. The child's grandfather, a prominent Palestinian American surgeon, must also make choices as the violence continues.

subjects: Americans,  Children,  Death,  Fathers and daughters,  Fiction,  Mothers and sons,  Palestinian Americans,  Soldiers,  New York Times reviewed

Places: Israel,  Jerusalem