Ramzi Ajamiah, 17, and Issa al-Muti, 16, have been best friends since
the first grade.

The pair can often be found with their arms wrapped around one another,
wandering through the narrow, graffiti-filled alleyways between their
homes in the Dheisheh refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of
Bethlehem.

The teenagers’ friendship grew deeper after Israeli occupation forces
shot both of them in the legs, causing each severe injuries.

“Our relationship is tied with a solidarity of pain. He is injured and I
am injured. We have the same suffering,” Ramzi told The Electronic
Intifada.

“[Our friendship is] like a stone. We have unity in pain.”