(AP photo) 29 October 2001 in Gaza.

Fares Audeh, the boy in this picture throwing a stone at the Israeli tank, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers nine days after this picture was taken.

“If he could come back to life, he would shout at every man: Don’t be afraid! Fear doesn’t keep death away, it keeps life away! People of the alley — you aren’t alive, and life will never be possible for you as long as you fear death.” Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Peter Theroux, page 443 . (Published by Doubleday, New York, English translation 1996, originally copyrighted in Arabic 1959.)