“If they named a hundred, it would not be contrary, and if they demolished the house, I would not be afraid, and if they broke my bones, my country, my bones would ache, and I would make a slingshot and a stone.” With these words from a Palestinian patriotic song, Nasra Abu Al-Nasr stood chanting over the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an air strike. Israeli during the last war on Gaza.

Nasra, who wears only the traditional embroidered Palestinian dress, has a strong determination despite the destruction of her apartment, and she tells Al Jazeera Net, "We must not be defeated by an occupation that only speaks the language of killing and destruction.

Composed by Nasr and Azima

While she was flipping through the scattered stones and the rubble of her apartment about things that might have escaped the destruction, Nasra - who was mentioned in the issue of "Flags of Palestine Women" in Beirut - was singing with a smile on her face: "We are Palestinian, we are not terrorist, and we are the owners of the right." Yama, we want to go back to our home."

Nasra and 6 other members of her family survived the bombing of her apartment in an apartment building in Al-Nasr neighborhood in Gaza City, when it was targeted by a missile fired by an Israeli reconnaissance plane, before an Israeli warplane targeted it with another missile that completely destroyed it.

Nasra took a model of a key embroidered with the Palestinian keffiyeh from among the rubble. Waving the key that the Palestinians take as a symbol of return, she said: "No matter how long it takes, we will return to our home in Deir Sneid and all the historical cities of Palestine."

Nasra comes from a Palestinian refugee family who abandoned her hometown of Deir Sneid to escape the massacres committed by Zionist gangs during the Nakba in 1948. Nasra says: "The hands of the occupation know nothing but killing, destruction and displacement, and we are building with one hand and with the other hand we are resisting."

This is not the first time that Nasra has suffered from the crimes of the occupation, as her house in the southern Gaza Strip was destroyed during the Israeli war in 2014, and her husband, brother and others from her family were martyred in confrontations with the occupation.

Her son, writer and historian Hussam Abu al-Nasr, told Al Jazeera Net, "It is not strange for a fighter like Nasra Abu al-Nasr who endured the misery of the diaspora, the occupation's pursuit of her husband, the suffering of the Beirut war, the martyrdom of her brother Muhammad in 1989, and the families of the rest of her brothers, and then the martyrdom of her husband after his return home, And her continuous steadfastness in all the stations of her life, to come out again, sing the melodies of freedom from above the rubble and shout out freedom and victory for Palestine.”

The hands of the occupation know only killing and destruction, and we are in the hand of building and in the hand of resisting (Al-Jazeera)

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Nasra lived most of her life in the diaspora, moving with her husband, the martyr Mahmoud, from one country to another, before they decided to return their children to Gaza with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in the mid-1990s.

Nasra says that she grew up in a "house of the fedayeen", whether with her brothers or after her marriage to her late husband Mahmoud, whom she accompanied as a female combat soldier in the ranks of the Palestinian fedayeen in Lebanon, to confront the Israeli occupation forces in 1982.

At that time, her husband - who was responsible for the "Unified Media" and one of the fighters of the Palestine Liberation Organization - sustained injuries that haunted him for many years, and he was martyred after returning to Gaza.

As for Nusra, who is one of the founders of the “General Union of Palestinian Women” in Algeria, the woman is a partner to the man in all the stages of the national struggle, and she said: “The Palestinian woman is a guerrilla, whether in her home while she gives birth and raises generations of fighters and guerrillas, or she is on the front line. You fight side by side with the man."

Despite the destruction of her apartment in Gaza, Nasra Abu Al-Nasr enjoys strong determination and hope for a near victory (Al-Jazeera)

She added, "It is true that in our wars with the occupation, martyrs rise, but people die of corona and other diseases, and we Palestinians die smiling martyrs on the path to freedom and liberation."

Nasra with her family is currently moving from one house to another with relatives and friends, after the destruction of her house, and she carries with her in her travels the determination, spreading it everywhere and the good tidings of a near victory, to prove that if a person has a share of his name, then she had the whole share of her name and place of residence: Abu Al-Nasr, and resides in Al-Nasr neighborhood.