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JOANNA WEISS

For the life of Yahya

For one Palestinian boy, borders and politics were no barrier to a lifesaving transplant

By Joanna Weiss

 |  Globe Columnist  

  April 29, 2012

Yahya Masalma is six years old and gregarious; he makes friends effortlessly, loves to sing and play guitar, and until this winter, he was profoundly ill. He was born in a village on the West Bank outside Bethlehem with a genetic condition — a blocked urethra — that caused his kidneys to malfunction.

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