Its with the Deepest regret that I am posting this status #EndThOccupation #FreePalestine #Gaza #WestBank My brother Mohammed Alareer, 31 aka Hammada he was the most famous television character in the Gaza Strip. Karkour, a mischievous chicken was the star of Al-Aqsa TV’s program Tomorrow’s Pioneers, which hosted children from all over the Gaza Strip. , a father of two, was killed by an Israeli airstrike while he was at home. While he was at home. No one knows yet if he bled for three days or if he died of the shockwaves from the explosion, or the sound, or the debris, or the shrapnel, or the fire or by them all. But my brother Mohammed is gone. His two very beautiful children. Raneem, four, and one-year-old Hamza, are without a father forever. And our big house of seven flats is gone. A house of four floors but thousands of stories is no more. The stories, however, will live to bear witness to the most brutally wild occupation the world has ever known. Early this year, Hamada won a small role in another TV show that started airing this Ramadan but was stopped due to the ongoing Israeli onslaught. The death of my brother will come as a shock to the large numbers of children whose favorite part of Friday was watching Karkour misbehave and helping him change into a better Karkour, thanks to their advice, only for him to relapse at the start of the next episode into another anti-social behavior. By killing my brother, Israel has surely has killed a promising talent, and deprived thousands of children of a funny and educational program. Like all Palestinian victims who fell to Israeli terror and aggression, Hamada leaves behind a loving family. My brother will be martyr number 26 in his extended family; five of them were killed last week and had their bodies dug out of the rubble during Saturday’s twelve-hour “humanitarian ceasefire.” the tremendous destruction Israel left in Shijaiya — whose name means “the land of the brave.” They told me about the families that lost five, ten and even twenty members. Israel intended to bomb people to surrender by randomly destroying houses and killing people in the streets. But to the contrary, what Israel’s actions are doing is bringing Palestinians in Gaza to a position of “we have nothing to lose.” “We are patient. We are steadfast. We are believers. God will surely end this aggression,” his mother kept assuring the family. There is a clear attempt to ethnically cleanse Palestine, to make us leave and never come back Palestinians have been acting as they should: resilient, steadfast and even more determined. We understand that we are not only fighting our own battle but also fighting a universal battle for justice and human rights against barbarity and occupation. And now, like hundreds of kids who survived the horror of Israel killing either or both of their parents, Raneem and Hamza will be without a father for life. Nothing we can do will replace the warmth and the love of the father they had to lose because Israel wanted Hamas leaders to see the destruction of Gaza. Raneem and Hamza will live to be witnesses to Israel’s war on civilians. They will live and grow in an unjust world where their father can be killed because he is in his own house and the killer will not even be brought to justice because he is an Israeli soldier. But before that happens, we will continue the struggle against Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, in the hope that before Hamza and Raneem are old enough, Israeli apartheid will be abolished forever. Israel’s barbarity to murder people in Gaza and to sever the connections between people and people, and between people and land and between people and memories, will never succeed. I lost my brother physically, but the connection with him will remain forever and ever. His memories, his tales, his jokes, his innocent smile will live forever through us, through his two beautiful children, and through the thousands of children who loved him on TV and in real life Rest In Peace no doubt you and all that have been martyred by the Israeli Terrorist are in the Highest abode in Jannah firdous May Allah swt give all Palestinians patience in heir darkest hour
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:40:34 +0000