GAZA, (PIC)
The people of Gaza bid farewell to their loved ones, individuals and families, since the seventh of October last year. Each of them has a story, a tale, ambitions, and dreams. They are truly not just passing numbers.
Our story’s hero is a young, ambitious fighter who struggled in his life and challenged the hardships of a painful reality, demonstrating a sense of responsibility and determination.
Their house was bombed
The young man, Sa’id Husni Abu Shawish (23 years old), was martyred alongside his brother Osama, who is one year younger, after their house in the Yabani neighborhood west of Khan Younis was bombed by Israeli aircraft on December 23 last year. This also led to the martyrdom of a woman in their neighbors’ house and numerous injuries, some of which were critical.
Sa’id Abu Shawish, who completed high school but couldn’t afford to attend university due to his family’s harsh financial circumstances, didn’t give up. He embarked on a difficult path in his life, challenging all severities by selling snacks in front of schools.
Dreams and hardships
His brother Khaled, who was injured with him in the Israeli raid, says that Sa’id was very ambitious, and one of his simple dreams was to save up enough money to attend university, then get married and start a family.
Continuing in an interview with the PIC correspondent, he said that Sa’id was a responsible man who took care of himself and his family in the face of severe circumstances that the family experienced due to the Israeli blockade and the policies of impoverishment pursued by the Israeli occupation authorities.
He pointed out that his brother established a small project from scratch to sell hot and cold drinks on the beach in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The project was Sa’id’s dream, which was starting to come true, launching him towards his bigger dreams, according to Khaled.
Unjustified bombing
Regarding the airstrike in which Sa’id and Osama were martyred, Khaled said, “We were asleep in our house in the Yabani neighborhood in Khan Younis, and suddenly the house collapsed on top of us due to direct Zionist shelling, which led to the martyrdom of Osama and Sa’id and a woman in the neighbors’ house.”
Khaled condemned the bombing of the house, especially since it only housed a civilian family with no targets inside.
The father of the martyrs, Sa’id and Osama, cries as he speaks to our correspondent, saying, “What hurts me the most is that Sa’id and Osama had big dreams that they were struggling to achieve, and the Zionist bombing came to kill these dreams.”
He added that his children and his house are sacrifices for Palestine and Al-Aqsa, and that Israel will not be able to break the will of the Palestinians, no matter what it does.
