A fundraiser for a young Palestinian American man left paralyzed after a shooting in Vermont last month has met its $1-million US goal in less than three days.
Hisham Awartani, a 20-year-old university student who grew up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was walking with two Palestinian American friends in the city of Burlington Nov. 25 when police say 48-year-old Jason Eaton shot them with a handgun in a suspected hate crime.
One of the bullets fired lodged in Awartani’s spine, paralyzing him from the chest down, his family said over the weekend.
His family and friends started a GoFundMe campaign over the weekend to raise money
