Mahmoud Mohamed - Tripoli
On the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Libya, Libyan families remember their children, who were the victims of a bloody war led by retired general Khalifa Haftar on the internationally recognized national accord government in Tripoli.
Families receive this religious occasion with a mixture of tears and grief over the loss of their children, and the satisfaction and joy of the "sanctity and nobility" of the mission for which they were killed.
The moments of farewell were mixed with feelings of pride and insistence on victory, and the rituals of joy of Eid were changed to a loss of loved ones and loved ones, where families came to comfort the families of the martyrs.| Many young Libyans have been victims of the Tripoli war (Al Jazeera Net) |
We are proud of our children
The mother is still safe. She remembers the last days of her son Elias, 22, who passed away in mid-April when he was fighting alongside the forces of the Al-Wefaq government against Hafar's forces.
"I am true that I missed my son on this holiday, but I am proud of him because he fought alongside the state against the criminal the thief Khalifa Khalifa and with him criminals who came to occupy our areas and topple the legitimacy," Amna Wafaa Troy told Al Jazeera Net from her son.
"My son was keen throughout his life to give me the gift of the feast and to accept my head and my hand. Karim is always keen to ask about my health. He was an example of the righteous son of his parents, who is balanced in his speech," said Amneh, who was wounded in the war against the organization of the Islamic state in Sirte in 2016. The courageous man in his noble positions, and the compassion for his sisters and brothers. "
Elias, who worked for the coast security at the Ministry of the Interior, says his mother says that he "lived a man and died a man. It is true that Eid al-Fitr is back and the eye is bleeding and the heart is sad for my son's separation and my liver, but the homeland is like a mother.
"When they came to my son Elias before his burial, Allah planted in my heart patience and inspired me and began calling him, and then invited him to sing with joy as a martyr, God willing, but I was saddened that I would not deliver him again," she said in a video broadcast on social networking sites. Minimum ".
Elias carries her son's pictures at times and at other times reads the Quran to his soul "hoping to be accepted by God" and considers him a courageous hero who sacrificed his expensive spirit in the battlefields defending the show and honor "not for a position or money as the forces of Haftar."
| Libyans remember their comrades who lost their lives (Al Jazeera Net) |
Honor battles
In Tripoli, Osama al-Senoussi narrates his brother Sufyan, 39, who participated in the Libyan revolution in 2011 against the regime of Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi, leading to the war against state organization, and finally against Hafar's forces. "Praise be to God. It is an honor for us to be a martyr in the battle for the defense of Tripoli. We raise our heads among the people and we take pride in them," Osama said.
He began to shed tears, recounting to Al-Jazeera Net stories about "Sufyan's masculine positions in response to injustice, aggression, defending the weak, courage, courage and human attitudes with the help of poor families and everyone in need in Tripoli."
"We lost our smile in our home, our family and our region during the days of the Eid. What makes us patient is that my brother was martyred in defending Tripoli and the cities of the West, all criminals who came for destruction, murder, kidnapping, theft and violation of the sanctity."
Osama says that his mother Fatima requested that her gift in the feast is "repel the heroes of the forces of the government of the Accord and this aggression and take it out to the eastern areas that came from it and punishment fair from Hafter and with him of the killers and criminals."
"Hafater and his accomplices will not have a place in Tripoli because of the displacement, displacement and intimidation of the security forces, the killing of civilians, the destruction of homes and the bombing of public institutions."
"We want a civil state based on a constitution. There is no place for extremists and the word is for the Libyan people, and whoever is chosen by the election fund rules, and whoever comes from thousands of kilometers for military rule must know that we will not accept it."
| Many Libyan mothers are proud of the loss of their children in the defense of Tripoli (Al Jazeera Net) |
I lost my friends
In the center of the Misurata market and the busiest street in Ramadan, Jalal decided to comment on two photographs of two young men who had been with the forces of the Al-Wifaq government in Tripoli.
"I decided to name a local because because every Ramadan and every festival I meet them here on Abdullah Ghareeb Street and they helped me sell the games, so I miss them today," Jalal said of his two companions Ahmed al-Quwairi and Ramadan Shmeila.
Jalal told Al-Qwairi that he was his close friend. They met almost daily and went together to watch football matches. He is now deeply saddened that he missed him on Eid.
"He is my neighbor, with a good heart and a well-known face. He loves people for good. He was a man in every sense of the word and a fierce fighter in the defense of Tripoli," he says.
"Libya's youth everywhere reject the rule of the military regardless of the cost of victims and want Libya a country that enjoys freedom, development, justice, stability and safety," Jalal said.