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Today, my village, Aita al-Shaab, bid farewell to the martyr, Hajj Muhammad Qasim (Abu Ahmad), whose blood was stained with martyrdom, the day before yesterday in an Israeli airstrike in the town.
The martyr was one of the last displaced from Aita, and one of the first to return and live there, in a tent he had pitched next to his destroyed home.
On the day of return after the sixty-day period had ended, when we, the villagers, entered Aita, joy filled us, and our faces shone, despite the destruction of homes and roads and the altered features of the neighborhoods, and despite the large number of martyrs from various Aita families, whose bodies were distributed in several areas where funerals had not yet taken place. This joy is the joy of the people of the land; no one else understands it. When I saw our destroyed home in Aita, I laughed. By God, I wasn't sad for a moment. I mocked an army that thought it was destroying the will to return, when in fact it destroyed nothing but stones. The martyr Hajj Muhammad initially pitched a tent in the cold weather and slept in it, next to his destroyed home, which had cost him the effort of his life and which held years of memories and laughter. The percentage of destruction in Aita is 90%. Many of the people of my village visit it weekly on a regular basis, and some of them visit it several days a week. They sit amidst the destruction, chat, and prepare food. In every one of these scenes, Sheikh Ragheb's words are present: "We mocked the occupation." The enemy thinks that by killing Hajj Abu Ahmed yesterday, it will scare the villagers from returning and rebuilding their homes. However, their gamble will be a losing one, just as it destroyed homes—both those of the original villagers and those built after the war.
In most of my posts about my village, Aita, I accompany them with the phrase "Aita... our self, our belonging, and our return."
Yesterday's martyr, Hajj Muhammad Qasim, loved Aita and lived there despite everything, despite the constant attacks and raids after the war. He loved it so much that he was martyred there, dwelling in its soil in the garden of the free, a steadfast martyr in love with this soil. His funeral was held today. On this day last year, Aita bid farewell to its loyal and devoted son, the martyr Raed Hattab, his mother's only son. Between the martyr Raed a year ago and the martyr Hajj Muhammad today, Aita bid farewell to more than fifty martyrs. Like the people of the resistance, Aita is not content with giving, nor does it hold back.
We love Aita to the point of martyrdom. It is our origin, our land, our memories, our cause, our passion. In its soil are our most beloved, and to its soil we shall return.
From among the last recordings of the martyr Hajj Muhammad Qassem - Abu Ahmad - he said in his voice, "God willing, the whole world will return to the village."
And we will inevitably return, we are the people of the land. And His Eminence, the most holy martyr, the master of promise and truth, said, "You will return home." #Aita_Umm_Al_Ezz_and_the_Martyrs
#We_Will_Return