Pictures| A painful farewell.. The occupation mourns the seat “Fadi” with his brother “Shadi” the owner of his heart and life

Jenin - “ے” dot com - Report: Ali Samoudi - For years, the life of the young man, Fadi Khaled Ali Najm (22 years), from Jenin camp, has been linked to his brother “Shadi” (18 years), as he is the only one who holds the keys to his heart and life, and is able to To draw a smile on his face and bring happiness to his heart after the disease robbed him of his life and transformed him since his birth into a seat, after he lost the ability to move and speak, so he mastered the language of sign and eyes in which he addresses his family, especially the shepherd and his biggest bond “Shadi” who does not leave his home or return to him without saying goodbye Hugging him and bringing gifts, especially sweets, to him, as he has worked for two years in a sweets fair in Jenin.

hard wait..

Usually, Fadi does not close his eyes, the first of his refugee family, which consists of 4 members, in addition to his parents, until his brother Shadi returns every day from his work, which ends in the middle of the night, bringing him gifts and everything he pleases, especially sweets. On Monday - last Tuesday, midnight was different, when the clock exceeded the exact time that “Fadi” was waiting for his brother “Shadi” to come, who was not late for his home on any day.

With the difficult moments of waiting, “Fadi” began to move in his own way, crawling on his feet with the help of his hands around the house, and his eyes express his questions to his mother about the reason for this, without receiving any answer, and perhaps his condition, as his mother expresses, was referring to his inner feeling that something bad happened to his brother because of Their close, intimate and distinguished relationship.

panic and shock...

Amid the moments of anticipation, the 50-year-old mother, Khitam Negm, broke the silence with a loud scream that shook the neighborhood, when she realized that her lover, breadwinner and family “Shadi” would not return home. Returning home, without knowing how and why he was injured, and we learned that he was transferred to Ibn Sina Hospital, which caused panic and fear for everyone, especially my mother, who did not wait, and ran with us in terror and anxiety to the hospital, while my father, due to illness, was unable to leave his bed, and tears took control of him, while My brother Fadi was in a state of shock in front of our tears and our condition, and soon he started screaming loudly while hitting his hands on his head and crying after he received the message and understood the truth.”

Ambush and confrontation

Meanwhile, hundreds of Jenin camp residents were flocking to the city’s hospitals in a state of panic and terror, while bullets were ringing everywhere, amid conflicting reports of martyrs and wounded, following a new operation of the occupation and its special units.

According to eyewitness accounts, a special unit infiltrated the camp in the middle of that night and surrounded the house of the family of the prisoner Sheikh Jamal Abu Al Haija, who had been detained for many years. In the dark, the monitoring and guarding teams of the Al-Quds Brigades and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades discovered the existence of the activity of those units, so violent armed clashes erupted, and they were attacked from several axes. An Israeli sniper shot him with a live bullet in the chest. Later it became clear that before carrying out the operation and storming the camp, the occupation soldiers occupied houses and residential buildings overlooking and leading to the camp. Teams of snipers fired at the resistance fighters when the clashes intensified, which was confirmed by “Abu Muadh, spokesman for the Jenin Brigade.

With the fall of al-Hosari at the entrance to the camp, covered with his blood, the intensity of the clashes intensified among the resistance fighters, who continued to target the occupation forces, which sent more than 30 military patrols into the area, at a time when the occupation was trying to impede the movement of ambulances to reach, which prompted the young man, Obada Al-Ghoul, to advance and help and withdraw Al-Hosari, but The bullets of the occupation snipers directly hit the young man with three live bullets in the chest, foot and shoulder. After a fierce battle, the people and the ambulance succeeded in pulling out the stalker, who was martyred before he was transferred to the hospital, while the ghoul was taken for treatment and underwent complex surgeries that lasted several hours and his condition is still critical.

This is how Shadi was injured.

After a hard day of work and fatigue, Shadi returned after midnight from Jenin, to his home in the camp, and with him, as his co-worker recounted, a candy box for his brother Fadi. Through a safe side road from Al-Zahraa neighborhood in the city to return to his family, suddenly I heard the news of his injury.”

According to the young man, Muhammad Juma Najm, his cousin, Shadi, called him on his way home and told him that he would not be late, but suddenly his manner of speaking changed, and he informed him that there was a force of the occupation army in the camp and he would go to another way to meet him in the square, explaining that when he arrived To the site, he received the news of his injury.

According to eyewitnesses, Shadi was walking in the street normally, especially since he was not wanted, was not armed and did not participate in the events. Suddenly he was seen falling to the ground after being shot by snipers who were occupying and hiding in the houses, while the Red Crescent ambulance crew, who He was able to take him to Ibn Sina Hospital, and it was reported that parts of his brain were blown to the ground.

The fatal bullet.

Three hours after his injury, the doctors announced the death of the young man. Dr. Osama Marashda, head of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department in Ibn Sina, explained to “4” dotcom that Najm had suffered a head injury, which led to a fracture of the skull and damage to the brain and torso, and he underwent surgery. Doctors managed to control the bleeding and transfer him directly to intensive care, but he died, due to an Israeli sniper’s bullet, as his mother says, “I sentenced him to death, and we have eternal pain.”

Aches and pain..

Anger intensified in Jenin refugee camp and the city after the martyrdom of Abdullah and Shadi, and massive rallies took place during the night hours, heading to the homes of their families. Strength to challenge his disability, may he rise and embrace and bid farewell to the beloved of his heart.

In front of the tragic scene, everyone who attended the Najm family’s moments of pain cried farewell to their son, and even the cameras, pens and pictures, if they had spoken, would have screamed and joined the crowds of journalists who were overwhelmed with tears, at a time when the eyes of the sick father, who could not move, shed tears without stopping, while he was trying to At the same time, calming the revolt of pain that engulfed his sick and crippled son, Fadi, without stopping his cries of anger, and his tongue repeating, as his brother Hadi says, “Where are the justice and human rights? .. Shadi all my life .. By what right did you kill my bond, my soul, my age, my brother, my father, and my world?”

The picture did not end, as the father burst into tears in the last moments of farewell while wiping the face and head of Shadi, who took responsibility for him since his illness, so he hugged him with one hand, and with the other with his seated son “Fadi”, repeating, “Oh, my love, Fadi. As for the mother, Khitam, and after the women participated in the chants, she quickly collapsed and grabbed the corpse as it left her house for the last time, and screamed in her simple spontaneous words, “I take you to God, leave him to me, do not take it from me, do not go Shadi .. Who are we after you?”

Tears will not dry..

Since Shadi’s funeral, the tears of his father, who suffered successive setbacks in the mourning house and was taken to the hospital, have not dried, while Fadi’s wound is still bleeding, and his younger brother Hadi believes that “he will never recover, and we will not compensate all of him for him, and no one will take his place for all of us. Affectionate and with a big and kind heart, he takes care of all of us and never fails us for a moment.

And Hadi, who was overwhelmed with tears all the time, added, “Shadi is considered our second father and more than a brother and friend. He has always guided and looked after me. He is loyal to our parents, loyal, loyal, chivalrous and brave.”

from his life..

Shadi, the first member of his family, was educated in UNRWA schools in Jenin camp until the eighth grade, and the difficult life conditions in which his family is compelled by the illness of his father, who is no longer able to work, says his cousin Muhammad “sacrificed his future to support his family, he struggled and worked In several professions with loyalty and responsibility until he settled two years ago by working in a sweets shop, and was distinguished by a close relationship with his parents, and his first and last concern was his family, overwhelmed by his tenderness and love.

Shady and Fadi.

Over the past years, Shadi has lived taking care of his brother Fadi, who is sick and suffers from quadriplegia, as he used to serve him, and his mother says, “He never stopped with him for a moment, before he went out to work, wakes him, prepares him, breaks his fast and provides him with his needs. A day he brings gifts, and Fadi does not sleep and waits for his brother at night to rejoice in obtaining the candy he loves and distributes part of it the next day to his friends.. After his departure we all suffer, especially Fadi, and we miss him and feel a great emptiness. preparing for his marriage, and I agreed with his father to build a room for him above our house, but the treacherous occupation bullets stole him from us and sentenced him to death and deprived us of the joy of a lifetime.”

born again ..

Shadi’s martyrdom coincided with the anniversary of the martyrdom of his cousin Khaled Jamal Najm, and Muhammad says, “The occupation uses all methods to punish our people and take revenge on us and kill us in cold blood. On the same day that Shadi was martyred, my cousin Khaled was shot dead by the occupation during his storming the camp on 1-3 -2002, and only three days later, his uncle’s wife, Umm Khaled, was martyred, and despite this pain, the martyr Shadi was born again. With his treacherous bullet, his name was given to the newborn so that he would remain present and alive, and let us tell the occupation: Shadi will remain alive in our hearts forever.”