"My friend and I were leaving campus on 9 April, and walking toward the taxi cabs that would take us to the village. "Suddenly, I felt a strong object smacking my right eye. I felt my entire head exploding. "I didn’t know what was happening to me. I collapsed and found myself in the Rafidia hospital." "There were no soldiers, no military vehicles, nothing, no helicopters hovering above. It was as if the bullet came from nowhere. If I had known there was shooting, I would have ducked it or moved to a safer place or returned to campus." "I am, of course, angry, to say the least, but I won’t allow this to cripple my life. I will return to college in a few weeks. Life must go on and I will not sit down at home lamenting my bad luck. "I will not look for mercy from anybody. I will keep going as if nothing had happened to me." Ruba Awayes, a student of information technology, said she saw no Israeli military activities or disturbances in the vicinity, but thinks the type of bullet (rubber bullet) points the finger at the occupation army. Humam Rishmawi, the ophthalmologist who treated Awayes’ eye, said: "Everything was smashed by the impact of the bullet – the cornea, the retina, the internal blood vessels, the entire eyeball was smashed. "We had no choice but to eviscerate her entire eye, which we did. We also placed a polystyrene ball in place of the eyeball." Awayes will have another operation in a few months to put in an artificial eye.