Scene 10 - Searching for Noura

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Wednesday July 4th, 9:35 am. David got out of the Jeep under the blazing sun and set foot on this ancient land. After a month of procedures and with the help of some contacts from the NGO where Noura worked, he obtained a visa and managed to get into the country. Of course, Canada, which was nurturing its relations with the enemy country, had failed to denounce the attack and had turned a deaf ear to the requests to repatriate Noura and the other injured Canadians. David had acted on an impulse and had made the trip all the way up here. He certainly did not think he was made of the stuff of heroes but he knew that he had to do this. The situation here was as bad as ever. It was a war zone. Rami was due to meet him upon his arrival at the checkpoint. He finally arrived and greeted David in tears. During the previous night, there had been another air raid and a lost missile had hit straight into the hospital where Noura was being treated. Almost all of the occupants had died, and Noura was still missing.

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