On 13 November 2015, Saleh Suliman, aged 11, went out to the greengrocer. The main road where the shop is was empty. On the way back, the road was crowded due to an incident between police and youths throwing stones. Saleh can remember holding a bag of red peppers and indicating to the soldiers that he intends to cross – “He (the soldier) saw me and then he shot once, but it did not hit me. I saw it hit the wall. But why did he shoot again?”
A black sponge ball struck him between his eye socket and his nose, and he fell onto the road. During the 26 days that Saleh was hospitalized, (for six of them he was unconscious) he lost sight in his right eye, which was replaced with a glass eye. He underwent eight surgeries to treat fractures in his jaw, crushed bones were replaced with platinum and alternative tear ducts were transplanted into his face. He lost vision in his left eye a few months after he was discharged from hospital following an infection that developed in the tear ducts.
