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"It is a gift from God," declared Aysha Ayyad, after her grandson was born with a large birthmark across his cheek that roughly spells out in Arabic the name of his uncle, a Hamas terrorist killed by Israeli troops several months ago. The two-week-old baby is attracting crowds to his Bethlehem home; the devout Muslim family believes the mark is a divine message of support for the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel.
When the infant was born two weeks ago, the family planned to name him for his father. But noting that the birthmark roughly formed the Arabic letters spelling "Ala," the family took it as a divine sign that he should be named after his dead uncle.
Ala Ayyad, 25, was killed by Israeli troops on March 25, 2003, in an ambush prepared by a special undercover Border Police unit waiting to arrest the Hamas terrorists. Ayyad was suspected of involvement in the November 2002 suicide bombing attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem neighborhood, in which 12 Israelis were murdered. In the ambush that killed Ayyad, a Palestinian civilian and Christine Sa'ada, a ten-year-old girl, were also killed.
According to Ala's grandfather, the baby was born on the 27th day of the holy month of Ramadan - revered as the night the Koran was revealed to the prophet Mohammad. "I went to the Imam of the mosque and asked him about the birthmark," said Abu-Imad, the grandfather. "He said it was a gift from God."
Jerusalem Grand Mufti Ikrimah Sabri heard about the phenomenon and called it a karama - a kind of miracle that happens to people, as only true miracles are reserved for prophets.
"But he who receives a karama is a chosen one," Sabri explained. "It is a baby with very special status."
Clerics announced the birth over the mosque's loudspeakers. Since then, nearly 7,000 people have come to the family's cramped four-room house in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem to see the newborn baby.
The Israeli army declined comment, media sources reported, but one security source said, "It sounds very freaky." The family has denied any hoax.
Some local Christians preparing for subdued Christmas observances quietly dismissed the baby's birth in a town revered by Christians as Jesus' birthplace as lacking religious significance, Reuters reported.
Aysha Ayyad said the birthmark was a sign "the soldiers can kill our sons but not our spirit." She said her son, Ala, joined Hamas shortly after he was beaten by Israeli soldiers. "This supports the idea of becoming a martyr," she admits, "But we want peace. I hope Ala will have a good life."
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