Friday, March 21, 2025

Gaza War: What the Palestinians say on Mother’s Day 2025 in Gaza “March Edition” {Warning: Graphic}

We are back to the war in Gaza and for the second year in a row, Gaza celebrates Mother’s Day in war.

The Arab World celebrates Mother’s Day on 21 March thanks to the Mustafa and Aly Amin brothers.

For the second year in a row, Palestinian mothers and children in Gaza celebrate it under the Israeli shelling as the Israeli government broke the ceasefire “it broke it since day one” and resumed the war.

We are back to see those scenes where a mother mourns her only child or her children or a child mourns his or her child.

Mother and Child by Palestinian renowned artist Silman Mansour
Mother and Child by Palestinian renowned artist Silman Mansour 

Those videos were filmed in Gaza in the past five days.

From Khan Younes, a mother woke up to find out that her children and husband were killed in an Israeli airstrike. They were already sleeping without Suhoor.

The first video I saw from Gaza this morning was that video of Um Omar or the Mother of Omar mourning him as her only child who did not want to bury him because it was tool old.

Um Omar got Omar after 5 years of trying. She had him through IVF.

At least 650 people were killed in the past 48 hours in Gaza.

I saw also this video of this mother informing her relatives that her son Fayez was killed last night in the strike.

I saw this video of that child recounting how his mama never came back following an airstrike on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Middle of Gaza.

I escaped the videos only to find the Palestinians on Twitter remembering both their mothers and children on that very special day.

Here is Asmaa Mughari mourning both her children and kids Aya and Aboud on that day.

“Thank you, mom. I miss you so much, children. May God gather us in heaven, my dear ones”

Or Hanin Maqdad who lost both her mother and her children just like Asmaa. 

"I was a mama to the sweetest and smartest children in the world, Omar, Nada, and Zeina. I was also a daughter to the most compassionate and best mother in the world, my beloved mother. May God unite me with you in the highest paradise"

Or Radwan’s letter to his mom

That’s what he wrote.

“On Mother's Day

This is my mother, her name was Ahlam, but I only ever called her Halouma Omri—my beloved Halouma. She was the one who named me, and I was her most spoiled child, her source of joy, her comfort in sorrow, her cure when she fell ill, her rest when she was tired, and her happiness when she saw me succeed. She was life itself, in every sense of the word—until Israel killed her, along with my father, my brothers, my sister, and my niece.

In one instant, they made me drink the full measure of pain that should have been spread over a lifetime. They turned me from that cherished child with a youthful face into a man with the features of a fifty-year-old and the sorrow of a seventy-year-old. Every happiness I had with my mother’s presence became eternal grief.

Now, when I fall sick, an illness that should last a week stretches into three more—three weeks of longing for my mother. When I grow weary and do not find her, the exhaustion only deepens, and there is no rest. When I succeed, I find nothing but the tears of her absence, and joy turns to mourning. Life after you, my mother, is without tenderness, without healing, without comfort—without life itself.

But forget all that I’ve just said—for none of it captures the true agony that devours my heart. The cruelest pain is this: the Israeli missile erased my mother’s face completely. They led me into a room filled with bodies, asking me to find her, but I could not.

At one moment, I saw a piece of fabric clinging to a corpse and thought, this must be my mother. But the moment I saw the face, I whispered, It’s not her. Another time, my sister noticed a pair of socks on another body and said, this is our mother. But she, too, took one look at the face and murmured, It’s not her.

This is what Israel did to my mother. They killed her, erased her face, denied me the chance to hold her one last time, to bid her farewell.

Please, do not forget my mother in your prayers.”

I do not know what to say more.

But this is a sample of what the people in Gaza are saying on Mother’s Day March edition.

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