Gaza- 7 days of feverish running, in which the owner ran between hospitals Gaza StripAnd he walked on the refrigerators of the dead, searching for an impact of his missing brother who came out with the crowds of women towards the “Zikim” area, where the flour trucks and a summit protected him from starvation, but he did not return.
After the strenuous search journey, Malik stood in front of a difficult test that he must come out with with certainty, a number of unidentified bodies in front of the dead refrigerators in Al -Shifa Medical ComplexLifting the cover from the imprisoned body in front of him, so the smell of death passed away from him, nothing in front of him is only a distorted body that changed time, so it became clear without features.
Malik began to inspect the remaining body of his brother, looking for a face he knew, a hand that resembles him, or a milestone that saves him from this deadly suspicion, but something only helped the ripped shoes stuck in his feet, as the Israeli shell of his members became his members and his features dissolved.
His brother says to Al -Jazeera Net, “He is the same shoe that he was wearing, but is this enough to say that he is my brother and bury him?
Martyrs of homes without men
The same confusion lived by a family in the corresponding corner of them, but it quickly dispelled when she got acquainted with the body of her son from the platinum installed in the bone of his thigh, as the old injury became a recent identity evidence.
We approached the martyr’s father when he was closing the body of his son Joseph with a trembling hand and tears silently falling, and he said, “Joseph did not go to bring flour to eat, but went to feed others.”
Youssef and Malik Shahidan, two out of 15 martyrs who were missing, who were recovered by the Civil Defense in Gaza from the vicinity of the Golden Hall in the “Zikim” area in the northwest of the Gaza Strip, while they were seeking to collect bags of flour, so the occupation shells and bullets were directly targeted.
According to a special statement made by the spokesman for the civil defense, Mahmoud Bella, to Al -Jazeera Net, more than 20 bodies are still in the place and have not yet pulled. “We received dozens of communications and appeals daily daily who reported the disappearance of their children during their attempts to reach aid and they did not return to this day,” he added.
And on the reason for the delay in the recovery of the bodies, Basal explained that these areas are considered advanced in the field, and are subject to the fire of the occupation, which makes access to them difficult and needs coordination with multiple parties.
The legacy of hungry children
On the path of death, the count does not stop, as it has fallen since the beginning of the aid Karam Abu Salem crossing crossing The Zikim Corridor until this report was prepared more than 435 martyrs, according to the government media office, Ismail Al -Thawabta, and more than 3250 others were injured, and dozens are still missing.
Under the guillotine of hunger, Abu Samer lost two of his sons, they fell in two periods separated on the same road, trying to bring a sack of flour to support them and support their children.
Al -Jazeera Net met the family of his martyr son Zahir in a small tent in the Al -Nahh camp, west of Gaza.
“Zahir was not carrying a weapon. He was a father who carried an honest intention to satisfy his five children.
As for his wife, she sits and turned around 5 orphans, her tears are hidden and said, “We searched for tact of food, but we did not find, and when we did not eat for 3 days, while he was supposed to return a bag of flour on his shoulder, he returned to the shoulders of people, leaving me 5 children hungry.”
Zahir was suffering from previous injuries in his kidneys, tahl, and his foot, but he insisted on going out despite the pain and hunger, “He used to tell me how I could sleep their sleep while hungry?”.
The path of hunger and loss
Zahir walked the same path that his brother Samer took months ago, the fear would not prevent him from receiving the same fate, and the memory of his brother did not deter him from going into the same journey, towards a distribution point that may lead to a summit or an end.
Despite the repetition of the loss of loss, tens of thousands of crowds are still gathering daily under the incendiary sun, at the gates of death, they are hoped that you will survive a bit or to obtain the honor of the attempt.
Al -Jazeera Net toured the crowds in the Zikim area, and interviewed a number of men who chose to risk their lives for the sake of living, says Abu Wael with a voice that is folded with anger and despair.
“For two months, we did not taste bread like the one who eats human beings,” said Muhammad.
One of the passers -by is boycotting him, and my empty -handed has returned, “If you are not strong and fast, you will not be able to reap anything, these are unjust ways of distribution, from which he is not an elderly, a woman, or a weak man.”
As for Umm Khalil, she started floating around the crowd, looking for the face of her son, who came out without her knowledge to bring flour, cry and scream as she rushes, “O Lord, my son is living, this is my bond and back, O God, O God!”
While one of them carries a bag of flour, returning as a warrior of his spoil after a harsh battle, smiling like a victor, and says, “I extracted him from the ties of death, today today’s feast, coming to you, mom.”