The occupation soldiers took his father at dawn from his home

Child Ahmed Al Qawasmi: My illness is the arrest of my father, not my cancer

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“Hot kisses and hugs, and tears streaming down the eyes.” This is the alternative dose of chemotherapy that the Palestinian child, Ahmed Hijazi al-Qawasmi, who has cancer, receives, after this exhausted, slender body was surrounded by armed soldiers who spread throughout the small house. Less than a minute after the father bid farewell to his sick son, Hijazi al-Qawasmi was taken to the depths of Israeli prisons, after the occupation soldiers arrested him from his home in the city of Khalil al-Rahman in the southern West Bank, in front of his children and wife, at the dawn of Tuesday, September 14.

This scene left a very severe shock to the 11-year-old child Ahmed, as his father is the one who always accompanies him in the sessions of receiving chemotherapy, and inspires in himself all the time the spirit of challenge and steadfastness, to confront the malignant disease, and Ahmed, the eldest son of the captive Hijazi Al-Qawasmi, suffers from cancer. The bone, which he sustained since January this year, and as a result the sick child lost the ability to move, and despite the seriousness of this malignant disease, the occupation soldiers did not take into account the child’s serious health condition, and the dangerous psychological and health repercussions that might result from that.

horrific scene

"Emirates Today" moved to Hijazi al-Qawasmi's house in Wadi Abu Kteila area, northwest of Hebron. The scene of his arrest did not leave the mind of his child Ahmed for a single moment, and his father's words to him at the moment of arrest still crowded his memory, despite his handcuffing, he whispered in the ear of his young child not to neglect the treatment sessions. .

He recalls his father’s words: “Be strong and solid, I will be back soon, do not be afraid, I am by your side, be well optimistic and do not leave the chemotherapy sessions.” At the time Ahmed was lying on his back on the sick bed inside his house.

The child Qawasmi says in a choked voice: “I couldn’t move at that moment, I tried to control myself and control my feelings, and after we left my beloved father, my tears flowed, and I felt a sense of oppression and weakness. My father’s arrest is the loss of my entire life.” Ahmed goes on to say after I burst into tears: "Today I became ill. My father is my cure, and his arrest is my disease, not my bone cancer."

He points out that at the moment when the soldiers stormed his father's house to arrest him, he was asleep, only to wake up to a horrific scene.

The sick child continues, saying: “The soldiers stayed inside our house for half an hour, and I felt very terrified, and cried so hard, I did not imagine this horrific scene before, despite my serious injury and my inability to move, the occupation arrested my father, who represents the happiness of life in all its details for me.”

deprivation again

On the day that the Palestinian prisoner, Hijazi al-Qawasmi, was arrested at dawn, he was supposed to accompany his child Ahmad, in the evening, to Al-Mutala’ Hospital in the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, to receive a dose of chemotherapy. occupier.

According to the child Qawasmi, he underwent an operation to remove part of the bones of his right leg, in a Turkish hospital, last July, and the occupation did not allow his father to accompany him, and today he begins his long treatment journey at Al-Mutala’ Hospital.

Ahmed said in his speech to "Emirates Today": "When I traveled to Turkey to perform the surgery, I was denied the presence of my father by my side, my cousin accompanied me, and then my mother, who, after a whole month, was able to obtain security coordination from the occupation allowing her to do so." .

He added: “At the beginning of the long chemotherapy sessions in the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, my father is forcibly absent from my life, to be deprived of his kindness and tenderness again. The arrest of my father, our house is sad and absent from the features of life, I missed his voice and face so much.”

The child Ahmed added, “I will return again to receive treatment, but this time without my father, and at the same time I will be strong, and I will continue my chemotherapy sessions at Al-Mutla’ Hospital, as my father recommended me, and I will pray to God to return to me as a liberator as soon as possible.”

This scene left a very severe shock to the 11-year-old child, Ahmed. His father is the one who always accompanies him in his chemotherapy sessions, and inspires him with a spirit of challenge.

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