The bombardment stopped and calm returned to the streets of Gaza, but many families in the besieged Strip have not yet breathed a sigh of relief, and the pain of parting and its excruciating pain still haunts their souls after they lost loved ones in touching farewell stories.
The endings are similar and the pace differs to them, united by the death descending from the sky of the Israeli aggression, not terrified of Shaybah the great or Adel of the freshness of the young.
Their stories are numerous, the number of injuries and the number of martyrs, and each story has a tragedy and a face that bleeds the heart and brings tears, and reverence rains for the people who used death and sang for it, and “the victims bid farewell to parties.”
The bloody wedding.. the joy of its conclusion is martyrdom
Perhaps Anaam Abu Qaida, 62, had no more happy, joyous, and optimistic day than the day she was martyred, for Anaam and her son were out to receive his bride, and her soul full of longing was filled with joy to wed his son to his bride.
The procession had taken its adornment, and in the midst of the unseen was another procession. As soon as her son got out of the car to take his bride, an Israeli missile surprised her, killing her and turning the wedding into a funeral.
She was going to her son's wedding, but she does not know that she is the bride who will be married. 🇵🇸
Martyr An'am Abu Qaida 62 years old, as today was her son's wedding and they were on their way to take the bride from her home without a party due to the circumstances.
Then the occupation assassinated their joy and targeted their car 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/OSpqBDR1i6
- Gaza Now (@GazaNownews) August 6, 2022
The procession of the martyrs, ululating, mourning, tears and groaning, folded the dress of joy, wrapping her body in the shrouds of martyrdom, in another wedding in Palestine, which was expressed by the Mauritanian poet Ahmedou Ould Abdel Qader:
We live in the fire, we do not care about its appearance
We receive the martyr's honor and victory..and the victims bid farewell to parties
The picture is of a man from Gaza comforting his daughter "Abeer" after the martyrdom of her fiancé, "Ismail Dweik", and it has not been a month since their marriage contract
"Ismail" was martyred with his mother after their house was bombed in southern Gaza, and their bodies were recovered
The picture of the martyr "Ismail" a month ago, on the day of his marriage, preparing his bride's dowry, he was not going to leave days later.
pic.twitter.com/SofxoWg5Xe
— Ali Siam (@AliSiamPress) August 8, 2022
Who will call me, mother?
Khalil Abu Hamadeh was not just a number among the martyrs. The boy who was kidnapped by the Israeli missile fire was the only one who waited for him for 13 years after her marriage to his father. He came out to life after 5 transplants. , who did not come by chance, and his seat at home was not crowded with siblings.
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His parents were in a hurry to marry him, and they were anticipating that happy and awaited day, but the destroyer of pleasures was faster to him than the steps of joy documented by chains of grief in Palestine.
Khalil's body was pierced by the flames of the occupation's fire, and his mother continued to suffer from longing for a departed who had not been bid farewell after he was full of eyes, light of sight, and heartbeat.
Khalil was left with nothing but memories, clothes, pictures and tweets on Twitter, the last of which was a congratulations to his mother after graduating from university, and thousands of pictures that were stored in the memory of two parents, who waited for the boy’s initiation cry for 13 years, then left her without farewell on a literary journey on the martyrdom line, remained in the notebooks.
On the bank of the grave.. the father clings to the coffin of his deceased
The father of the two martyrs, Ahmed and Moamen al-Nairab, was on a date with childhood riots. The two young children were birds filling the kindergarten of the house with song, fun and happiness, and without them the house would lose a large part of its comfort and happiness.
However, Israel's missiles - fond of children's livers - destroyed the house and planted a fire of sadness, which neither fades nor extinguishes, in the heart of a father who held - every day - to his chest his two young sons and imprinted kisses of love on their flushed cheeks.
The father remained clinging to the edge of the coffin that contained his parasites, sleeping in a slumber of death, after they were violently robbed by the occupation’s fire from the clamor of childhood and the violence of innocent riots. Hundreds of Palestinians prayed over them, who chanted “Allahu Akbar” full of anger, before they buried the two young ones in the ground that people repeat with him every time “I don’t think the earth is lasting except from these bodies.”
martyr savior
He raised his index finger, and it remained extended to the sky, a sign of unification and innocence of martyrdom, after he was killed by an Israeli missile shell filled with hatred and flames.
Ahmed Afana had come to the aid of his neighbors from under the rubble of their house, which was destroyed by the Israeli bombing on their heads, to end up as one of the victims and a number of death, which the aggression distributes on the bodies of the Gazans generously without limits.
He ran to save his neighbors, and he was martyred, raising his index finger
The Palestinian youth #Ahmed_Afaneh was martyred while trying to save his neighbors from the (Abu Jasser) family, which was targeted by the Israeli occupation.
Activists reported that Afana was martyred after the house wall fell on him while he was trying to save his neighbors from under the rubble of their house.# Gaza_under_bombing pic.twitter.com/CFyIwsrZht
- Al Jazeera Mubasher (@ajmubasher) August 7, 2022
on the verge of death
In the odors of the departed, in the diaries of death in Gaza, there are various flavors of sadness, multiple colors that write death stories, and hymns of martyrdom.
Chivalry, sacrifice and giving..
The owners of 3 houses in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip donate to demolish their homes in order for the Palestinian civil defense mechanisms to pass and facilitate their access to a house that was bombed by the occupation in an attempt to rescue the missing under the rubble.
— Radwan Akhras (@rdooan) August 6, 2022
And in the house of Abu Hussam al-Tahrawi, another story of death, Hussam was a witness to the shrouds that flew from the body of his sister’s daughter. That fresh Gaza flower was a piece of beauty, bullying and vigor. Nor the roar of Israeli flamethrowers.
And because the scale of the tragedy was greater than patience, Al-Tahrawi chose to abstain from the scene of his niece’s funeral, because the pain was greater than bearing, and wrote on the mural of his Facebook account, “I told them, and the words are very difficult for me before they were upon them: We will not bring the body home. Communications, I rejected the idea completely, because I was in the place when the body was recovered, and I know the details more than anyone else, so when we left the hospital, we received parts of her body.”
Alaa was nothing but a number in a list under update, to which a new name is added every day, and she may end at every moment the life of an infant, the prostration of a hunchback sheikh, or the joy of a bride, and steal a girl from her mother’s arms, before she burns the earth, writing a diary full of pain among a descending flame From heaven, patience and steadfastness firmly established in the earth.