....Barghouti
smiled for the first time since the meeting began. "Listen to me
well," he told Boulus quietly. "I was there, not you. They evacuated
the house. I saw everything. Tens of soldiers came with weapons cocked
and aimed at one target - me. Another second and they would have stormed
the house. We are not talking about a difference of minutes, but of seconds.
If I had not done what I did, if I had not gone outside at that second,
I would not be alive now. They didn't come to capture
me, ya Jawad. Believe me. I spoiled their plan. They didn't want me alive.
They came to kill me."
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