Martyr Badr Musleh (Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia)

Six months after the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia devoted a full page to the lives of 50 Gazan martyrs in a report entitled “The Shattered Life Behind the Numbers in Gaza.” The newspaper said that it wanted to restore to the Gazan citizen his lost humanity in the Gaza Strip. International media.

The newspaper "La Vanguardia" is one of the few Western media outlets that used the term "assassination" to describe the acts of Israeli killing and bombing. The newspaper believes that "the atrocities continue in Gaza to the point that one sometimes cannot think about the magnitude of the tragedy of two million people who live without housing, food or... Security, and they cannot protect their children, and are deprived of even a truce due to their dead crying, or being pulled from under the rubble.”

The Spanish newspaper reminded that among the approximately 34,000 Palestinian martyrs, there are no less than 14,000 children, that is, more than all the children who died in the wars that took place in the world in 4 years, adding: “But the numbers, despite their horror, did not move consciences, as if Numbers protect one from pain.”

A number of dozens of martyrs, “La Vanguardia” reviewed some of their stories:

Omar Abu Shawish (36 years old):

Omar was a poet who won international awards in the field of culture and literature, and among his works was the novel “Everyone Is Dying.” He was martyred by an Israeli missile on the 7th of last October. The first day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, when he went out to pray and go jogging.

Among what Omar Abu Shawish wrote in his literary career was the poem “The Epic of the Coastal Road,” which stated:

It was longer than death by one or two martyrs

We later called it "Coastal Road."

It is said that death comes once in a lifetime.

And every day someone comes along the coastal road to open the door for the martyrs!

Martyr Omar Abu Shawish (Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia)

Maria Abu Hatab (9 years old):

Maria lived a happy life, before she suffered a tragedy in 2021, at the age of five, when her mother and four brothers were martyred in an Israeli raid.

In shock, she continued to receive psychological treatment until she was martyred on February 14 in an Israeli bombing, erasing the entire family from the records.

Yamen Muhammad Abu Kamil (11 years old):

He was passionate about travel and exploration, and was greatly influenced by a trip that led him to Egypt, the Emirates, and South Korea last summer, which left a profound impact on him, and he returned from it rejoicing. But he was martyred on October 11, along with his uncle Jalal.

Habiba Abdel Qader (14 years old):

Drawing was her hobby, and she was engaged in it when an Israeli bomb hit the family home while her mother was in the kitchen. Habiba was martyred on October 14, and her parents, who work for an international organization, were wounded.

The mother says: “I was teaching my daughter and my son also the values ​​of human rights. Habiba died while she was drawing for no fault of her own.”

Habiba appeared in a famous video crying at the end of the school year, and her teacher addressed her at the time, saying: “Don’t cry, Habiba. This is the last class of the year, not of life.”

She said in that recording: “I loved my father, my mother, and my younger sister, and I loved cats, and I was outstanding in my school, and they called me Al-Fahama because of my academic excellence.”

Hisham Karim (29 years old):

He was martyred by Israeli artillery fire on February 29, in what became known as the “flour massacre” in the Nabulsi roundabout in Gaza City, in which 118 Gazans were martyred. His family says he was passionate about sports.

Martyr Lubna Olayan (Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia)

Lubna Alyan (14 years old):

She was described as a lively girl. She dreamed of becoming the most famous violin player in the world, after she learned to play this instrument at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Gaza branch. Lubna was killed with 50 of her family in an Israeli bombing on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on November 21.

Badr Musleh (39 years old):

He is a person of determination. He was born with a visual disability, then lost his sight completely after being exposed to tear gas in the first intifada.

Disability did not prevent Musleh from studying history at the Islamic University in Gaza City, and from devoting himself to serving people with disabilities in the Nuseirat camp, where he was a source of inspiration. Badr was martyred on December 6, leaving behind 3 children.

Source: Spanish press