“They deprived me of his tenderness from Badri Keter (early),” with these brief words and with tears in her innocent eyes, the child Salwa Shaath expressed her feelings for the loss of her father, the martyr Mohammed, who was assassinated by an Israeli warplane during the third war on the Gaza Strip in 2014.
At the time, Salwa was a four-year-old girl, telling Al Jazeera Net, "I don't remember much about my father, but it is enough for me to be proud that I bear the title of the martyr's daughter."
Salwa is the owner of the image with which the social networking sites were buzzing, and she appeared as her tears were shrouded in the Palestinian flag, which she was entrusted with the task of raising, during a ceremony honoring the outstanding people from her family that was held in the fourth school of Adawiya in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Salwa was surprised at the ceremony by mentioning the name of her martyr father, who happened to commemorate his assassination these days. She did not possess herself and her tears poured into a moving scene that many interacted with, and the sympathy of social media activists in Palestine and around the world earned her.
About that momentous human moment, Salwa says, "I felt a lot of longing and nostalgia for my father as soon as he mentioned his name from the party master, and I only found tears to express my feelings."
Haneen and Shajoun
Salwa from her four-year-old, who spent her life in her father's life, does not remember much about him, and her soft memories only store a single situation, when her father accompanied her to water the trees in the garden of the house.
Salwa’s prisons raise the word “papa” when she hears it from her peers, and sees them accompanied by their parents, and she bitterly questions the sadness, “Why did you deprive me of my father?” Here her mother intervenes “because they are murderers criminals, and we comfort us that he is a martyr in heaven.”
Salwa's mother enumerated many of the good things that her martyr husband enjoyed, and she diagnosed with her eyes a big picture of him hanging on the wall of the "guest room", and she said, "He was brave in advance, and at the same time compassionate, loving to others, and interacting with their concerns and sorrows."
Salwa is looking to fly in the space world, she has two dreams that she hopes to achieve, she hopes to one day become an astronaut, and to write poetry, which she started with a few verses glorifying her martyr father, and expressing her longing and longing for him.
The child Salwa Muhammad Shaath heard her father’s martyr’s name during a ceremony honoring the first high school students in Gaza, and she shed tears behind the flag of Palestine 💙 Oh for this people and their pain, pain and tyranny ✊
Posted by May; on Sunday, July 19, 2020
Hot tears
This spontaneous image that showed Salwa's warm tears on her cheeks, was not just a silent image, as it stirred the feelings of all of her contemplation, and words of love and sympathy flowed with her.
Activist Ahmed Al-Amin posted a picture of Salwa on his Facebook page, and attached it to these words, “All the female comrades of age attended the Gaza celebrations for high school graduates in the company of the parents, except for Salwa, the daughter of the martyr Muhammad Shaath, who was blessed with the lightning of patience. Salwa finds a shoulder resting on the head other than the mast and only the Palestinian flag to sow grief ... Salwa's tears are other signs of dawn.
And the journalist Rasha Farhat was satisfied with a few words, during which she commented on the image of Salwa's tears, in which she said, "These are expensive tears, Salwa."
To recall the thousands of children of Palestine who lost their parents and loved ones as a whore, activist Abdullah Maarouf said, commenting on Salwa's tears, "A painful picture of the death limit ... O Palestine, its stories, its pain, its pain and its oppression!"
Salwa is an orphan with a treacherous raid
under the impact of rockets and missiles during the fiercely war on Gaza, Muhammad fled his family from his house in a remote area of danger, and took refuge in his uncle's house in the center of Khan Yunis seeking safety.
During the few hours of his asylum that preceded his martyrdom, Muhammad al-Rukun did not want to be safe enough for himself and his family, and he devoted his time and effort to participating in distributing food to the needy, and IDPs like him, who abandoned their homes to schools and other places in the belief that it was safer.
On the evening of July 18, 2014, one of Ramadan days during the war, and after eating breakfast with his family and relatives, Muhammad decided to go home alone, on foot, as the streets were empty of pedestrians and cars, while he was accelerating the pace with caution from every movement of Around him, he was afraid of warplanes flying over him, so he quickly rushed to his uncle's house.
The planes did not give him long, and targeted him with a missile while he was sitting with his aunt and his maternal uncle Sami Shaath and four of his sons. Muhammad was seriously injured, while three of his cousins were martyred immediately, Amjad, Ahmed and Muhammad, and God wrote life to his aunt and uncle.
Muhammad stayed in the intensive care room for six days, before announcing his martyrdom, to start Salwa with her only brother Abdel Hamid, the life of an orphan early.