Six patients are to receive organs from a Palestinian boy accidentally killed by Israeli troops. Officials at Israel’s Schneider and Beilinson hospitals said Monday that organs donated by the family of Ahmed Khatib, 11, are expected to save the lives of six Israelis, among them Jews and a Bedouin.
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