To those who did not break and did not raise the flag of surrender
Afrasianet - In one of the corridors of Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of Gaza City, crowded with the bodies of martyrs, the smell of blood and tears mixes with tales of patience and steadfastness.
This time, the scene was not a scream or a collapse, but a shout that broke through the heavy silence, announcing an exceptional farewell to the sons of martyrs.
In the video documenting the farewell of the bodies of the martyrs who died as a result of the Israeli shelling of the Sheikh Radwan police station, west of Gaza City, a Palestinian mother was seen standing tall in front of the tragedy, firing the zagharid and preventing those around her from screaming or crying, saying in a steady voice despite the pain: "Zartol them... No one is screaming."
These words were not a denial of grief, but a declaration of firm faith and indescribable patience. The mother, who lost her son in the raid, revealed in a moment that sums up the whole story of Gaza that she has become the mother of two martyrs, yet she did not fall, did not collapse, but raised her head and said, "Thank God."
Around her, the bodies of the martyrs were lying on the ground, and the faces of mothers and fathers pale from the horror of loss. But this mother chose another path.. Zagharid instead of wailing, and steadfastness instead of brokenness. It was as if she wanted to say that Israel, no matter how much it kills and destroys, will not take away the dignity or faith of the Palestinians.
This scene, which went viral, was no exception in Gaza, but an intense image of a people made out of patience. A people that turns loss into martyrdom, tears into prayer, and death into meaning.
Patience that history has never witnessed
More than two years after the continuous aggression, with the fall of more than 70,000 martyrs and the almost complete destruction of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian in Gaza still clings to one word that does not leave him: Praise be to God. A word is not said out of surrender, but out of faith that what God has is greater, and that the martyrs are alive with their Lord and provide sustenance.
Observers say that history has never witnessed such patience, and it will never be. Cities have been razed to the ground, families have been destroyed, children, women and the elderly are under the rubble, and yet the people have not been broken, and they have not raised the white flag.
That mother's Zagharid was not only a farewell to her son, but a message to the whole world that Gaza, despite the wounds, is still standing. And that mothers, despite their loss, create the meaning of steadfastness and that a people that bids farewell to their children with Zagharid is not defeated, no matter how long the aggression lasts.
At Al-Shifa Hospital, where life and death came together in a single moment, a Palestinian mother wrote a new line in the saga of Gazan patience... An epic that will remain a witness to a people who astonished the world, and persevered where collapse was the easiest option, but it was not Gaza's choice.
