The city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank witnessed a new chapter in the Palestinian tragedy, where life and death converged simultaneously. Nayef Samaro, a 26-year-old young man, was martyred by Israeli occupation forces' bullets at the very moment his wife was giving birth to their first child inside Rafidia Governmental Hospital.
The story began when Samaro took his wife to the delivery ward during her first labor. Filled with eagerness and joy, he left the hospital heading to the city center. He planned to buy sweets and some essential items to celebrate the arrival of his firstborn, whom he had long awaited to see.
However, the Israeli killing machine was lurking in the city, as occupation forces suddenly stormed Nablus and began firing live ammunition at citizens. One of the bullets directly hit the young Samaro, turning the atmosphere of joy in his family into a solemn national funeral.
Local sources reported that the young man was rushed to Rafidia Hospital, the same medical facility where his wife and new child were. Samaro arrived suffering from extremely critical head injuries, and medical teams were unable to save his life, leading to his martyrdom due to his wounds.
In a scene that brought tears to those present, the child was born an orphan before his father could embrace him or hear his first cry in this world. Activists considered this crime to reveal the brutal face of the occupation, which does not differentiate between a civilian or a crowded commercial area, and targets Palestinian joy in its cradle.
At Martyrs' Roundabout in central Nablus, the martyr's father performed the funeral prayer over his son's body amidst large crowds of angry citizens. The funeral procession paraded through the streets of the ancient city, where mourners chanted slogans condemning the ongoing occupation crimes and demanding accountability for targeting unarmed civilians.
For his part, the head of Palestinian Medical Relief, Dr. Ghassan Hamdan, stated that the incursion targeted a vital commercial area bustling with passersby. Hamdan explained that the shooting was random and intense, noting that the martyr's head injury confirms a premeditated intention to kill and physically liquidate.
Hamdan stressed the necessity of providing urgent international protection for the Palestinian people in the face of what he described as 'organized criminality' practiced by the occupation army. He added that the international community merely observes while fundamental human rights are violated daily and flagrantly in the occupied territories.
Hamas mourned the martyr Nayef Samaro, affirming in a statement that the blood of the martyrs will remain fuel for the path of liberation and the expulsion of the occupier from Palestinian land. The movement called on the masses to escalate all forms of confrontation with the occupation in response to this heinous crime that targeted a father on his day of joy.
The memory of the child's birth will forever be linked to the date of his father's departure, in a painful paradox that reflects the reality of living under occupation. Nayef Samaro left life behind, leaving a child who will carry his name and story, to be a new witness to an unprecedented oppression in modern history.
What oppression is this... he takes his wife to give birth to their first child, and goes to buy items for the celebration, only to be struck by a treacherous bullet, returning as a martyr to the same hospital.
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Nablus Bids Farewell to Nayef Samaro: Occupation Bullets Assassinate a Father's Joy at the Birth of His Firstborn