The twentieth imam, Ibrahim Al-Shanbari, had not long waited for his supplication to be blessed by God for martyrdom in his path.
He asked for the certificate and took her way
Unusually, Al-Shanbari took an unusual road from the “Martyr Salah Shehadeh” mosque, heading to his home. An Israeli air strike targeted him and a number of worshipers returning from the mosque.
The twenty Imam was killed instantly, and more than 40 others were wounded, including his uncles and relatives, who were close to each other in a circle of about 80 meters in diameter, according to his father and eyewitnesses.
Al-Shanbari was a retreat in the mosque in the last ten days of the month of Ramadan, leading the worshipers and doing them at night, as he is a seeker of Sharia who preserves the Book of God and protects the children of his region.
A picture spread to him on social media while he was - hours before his martyrdom - distributing gifts of encouragement to children who adhere to the memorization sessions of the Holy Quran in the mosque.
His father, Ahmed Al-Shanbari (Abu Al-Nimr), tells Al-Jazeera Net that his son Ibrahim is the fourth of his eight children, and the most religious of them is, and the most moral of them, and he was friendly and just.
He added, "I never remembered that he raised his voice in my presence, he was attached to the hereafter, loosening up the world, taking care of my economic conditions, and not burdening me with many requirements, and managing his affairs with little."
Abu al-Nimr carried the body of his son to the town cemetery, and he made his will that his grave be simple and covered with sand only, without any evidence to decorate it.
Groom in Heaven
"It was not written for Ahmed to be a groom in this world .. He is now a groom in heaven," said the father of the martyr Ahmed Al-Masry, who was preparing for his wedding on the second day of Eid Al-Fitr.
Ahmed (21 years), his sister Rahaf (10 years), his child nephew Yazan (a year and a half) and 7 others - most of them relatives - were martyred in the first raid launched by Israel half an hour before breakfast, which started its bloody war on Gaza last Monday. .
Abu Atallah Al-Masri was preparing for the wedding of his son Ahmed, but fate chose him as a martyr, telling Al-Jazeera Net, "He joined his mother, who was martyred in an Israeli raid during the first war on Gaza in 2018."
The Al-Masry family used to have a painful share of Israeli crimes in Gaza, as their home was completely destroyed during the 2014 war.
An Israeli airstrike tore apart the body of Ahmed and others, while they were busy preparing the wheat crop to sell to a merchant who shared the death, and their blood and body parts mixed with the scattered wheat.
"The missile tore my heart by killing Ahmed and assassinating our joy," Abu Atallah said in a voice that came over the phone, faintly and overwhelmed by grief.
Ahmed left without wearing a wedding suit, and Rahaf left the Eid clothes behind a hanging that she was not happy to wear, and he accompanied them as a baby martyr.