GAZA, (PIC)
The blood of the coffee seller mixed with the dirt clinging to the asphalt and the coffee cups he was selling, marking the place with another bloody crime of the Israeli occupation army in the Gaza Strip.
The young man, Jinji, was not carrying a rifle or a bomb. He held a coffee pot in one hand and cardboard coffee cups in the other, having left early in the morning to earn his daily bread through hard work in the harsh reality of a genocidal war.
Jinji is a martyr
On a simple stall near the Families’ Intersection in Gaza City, the coffee seller, known as Jinji because of his reddish hair, became a well-known figure in the area. Everyone admired his kindness, beautiful smile, and the delicious coffee he sold at a modest price, never hesitating to give it to anyone who asked, even without payment.
On Tuesday morning (25/6/2024), amid a series of bloody airstrikes that hit UN-flagged shelters for displaced people and residential homes, Israeli aircraft bombed the coffee seller. He fell to the ground, and a citizen captured a photo of him with blood flowing, mixing with the dirt on the asphalt. He still held the coffee cups in his hand, while the coffee pot lay beside him, bearing witness to another Israeli crime.
The famous coffee seller set out as usual every morning, preparing his coffee pot and cups, ready to roam the streets of the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City as he did every day, spreading smiles and calling out to people to sell his coffee.
The land he loved and refused to leave for 263 days embraced the martyr’s body, his blood telling a story of injustice, oppression, and attachment to the land, alongside his work tools.
The Israeli aircraft bombed a group of citizens and vendors around the Families’ Intersection in western Gaza City. Among them were Jawad Ali Al-Za’abut, his son Ali, Mahmoud Fouad Zahra, and the coffee seller.
In recent days, the Israeli occupation forces have repeatedly bombed street vendors, workers, aid providers, and humanitarian workers, targeting every attempt to work and survive despite the killing, destruction, and flames they have unleashed since last October 7.
