A farewell that you will never tire of, Najwa

Ramallah Wafa - Ramy Samara

Reclining on two young men, Najwa Al-Barghouti arrived at home with heavy steps, coming from her firstborn to receive him for the last time and then bid him farewell again for the last time.

Yesterday, she was hugging him at the hospital refrigerator, thinking that he was joking with her about his death, and she did not understand that one of the occupation bullets was serious about taking his soul forever in the neighboring village of Nabi Saleh.

"You left me for whom? I know that you are watching me and laughing at me and you want to get up, Hugh, you turn on me, he wants to get up. Hugh, Zalma, he wants to get up.

Najwa said as she wiped her hand on the forehead of her son, the martyr, Nihad Barghouti, upon her arrival at the Istishari Hospital, to which he was taken wounded by the occupation’s bullets, in which he announced his promotion.

On the road linking the villages of Nabi Saleh and Kafr Ein, dozens of boys stood in opposite rows, carrying Palestinian flags, to receive the body of the martyr, who arrived in an ambulance, with a long procession of vehicles coming from the townspeople and mourners.

Waiting for him in front of his family's house, which is only a few meters away from the main road, hundreds of townspeople who chanted for their souls and blood, we redeem you, martyr.

Najwa had raced towards the narrow courtyard of the house, and in front of the gate she sat on a chair waiting for her son to arrive to say goodbye to him for the last time before seeing him in the grave, surrounded by female relatives and women from the town trying to support and console her.

The body was taken out of the ambulance, and carried on the shoulders of his friends and relatives who accompanied him, chanting "With our souls and blood, we will redeem you, martyr" and "Oh, mother of the martyr, I wish you my mother."

As soon as he was placed on a table, the corpse of the martyr, Nihad Barghouti, was buried in the groaning and chanting of his family and lovers in the courtyard of the house, before he was buried under the earth.

His body disappeared among the bodies of dozens of his family members who gathered around him and cried for his absence, while his mother felt her son's body and wiped her palm on his face.

And when the mourning spells intensified, Amin, the father of the martyr, shouted, asking the women to ululate: “This is a martyr, we raise our heads in him. This is a martyr who was requested by his Lord, they ululated.” They fulfill his request and then go back to what they were.

And because he is not satisfied with saying goodbye to the dead for the last time at his home, Amin had to ask the martyr's friends and relatives to carry the body and take it back to the ambulance, especially since the time for the noon call to prayer is near.

The funeral procession set out again to the town's school, whose courtyard was crowded by hundreds. They prayed noon, and then performed the funeral prayer.

Ascending towards one of the highest mountain peaks, the martyr was carried to the town cemetery for burial, and while his body was being buried, Najwa sat at the entrance to the cemetery surrounded by dozens of women. Her heart led her there to bid him farewell again, even from afar.

While one of them was holding her hand to strengthen her resolve, she said: "May God make it easy for you, Nihad, and give you tenderness. You asked for it and you received it," in reference to the testimony.

And she began to multiply the virtues of her firstborn, as he was the best and kindest, and it did not happen that she slept with any anger in her heart against him.

She mentioned that he once advised her not to cry for him if he died as a martyr, and she answered him asking him to stop joking, and he replied, "If you love me and comfort me, you will not give me trust. Do not give me trust if you die." She praised God and asked him to be patient with him for his separation.

On the opposite side in the cemetery, under a tin roof placed to protect against the summer heat and the slumber of winter, Amin al-Barghouti stood to receive well-wishers and mourners for the martyrdom of his son, who was shot twice by the occupation and arrested in his prisons three times.

The martyr, Nihad Barghouti, was arrested on one occasion after he sustained a critical wound in the neck, and on another occasion he had to surrender to the occupation forces in order to release his brother Marwan.

Amin says: "Two years after his first arrest, the occupation surrounded the house to arrest Nuhad, but he managed to escape, and at that time they arrested his brother, who was preparing for his wedding, and said that they would not release Marwan until after Nuhad surrendered himself, so he decided to surrender himself, so that he could Brother of happiness.

Among the situations that the martyr’s father recounts about him, he went out on one of the holidays to the iron gate that the Israeli occupation erects at the entrance to the neighboring village of Nabi Saleh, and he opened it so that their relatives could reach them to congratulate them on the holiday, and he came back injured by shrapnel from bullets fired by the occupation soldiers towards him.

He used to say: "I cannot accept that a settler without origin or separation would search me while he was wearing military clothes. I cannot imagine that strangers set up checkpoints for us in our homeland."

According to his father, the martyr was sent by the occupation several times to “beware, otherwise we will kill you.” His response was that his soul was on his palm, and that his father had inherited the struggle, wounded, captive and liberated, not money or property.

As Amin says, the martyr was proud of the name he bore, as he was given the name after the martyr Nihad Hantash, who was shot dead by the occupation on December 15, 2000 at the entrance to the village of Kafr Ein.

The martyr Nihad Hassan Hantash, a security man from Baqat al-Hatab in Qalqilya governorate, rose after being targeted by the occupation with several bullets while he was responding to an attempt by the occupation forces to storm a checkpoint of the National Security Forces at Kafr Ein.

Amin al-Barghouti tells that he was the first to reach the checkpoint area at the time, and when he saw the security man covered in blood, he tried to provide him with an ambulance, but he breathed his last in his hands, so he decided to name his next son after the martyr after him and his fighter action.

With surface-to-surface missiles, Israel again targets Syrian regime sites in Damascus

Syrian regime media said that Israel targeted south of the capital, Damascus, with several surface-to-surface missiles, which resulted in material losses.

The Syrian regime news agency, SANA, reported that Israel targeted south of the capital, Damascus, with several surface-to-surface missiles, which resulted in material losses.

SANA quoted an unnamed military source as saying that at about 11:35 p.m. on Wednesday, the Israeli enemy carried out a strike with several surface-to-surface missiles from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of the town of Zakiya, south of Damascus, which led to some losses. physical, without details.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli authorities.

A regime soldier was killed and five others were wounded in an Israeli air and ground bombardment on February 9 that targeted military sites in the vicinity of Damascus, and the Hebrew state said at the time that it was in response to a missile fired at it from Syria.

Israel rarely confirms the implementation of these strikes in Syria, but it reiterates that it will continue to confront what it describes as Iran's attempts to establish its military presence in Syria.

For years, Israel has repeatedly targeted the Syrian regime forces and terrorist groups affiliated with Iran, which are stationed in several locations in Syria.

Erdogan's visit to the UAE reveals that there is no breakthrough yet in relations with Saudi Arabia

Istanbul : The Turkish President’s visit to the UAE revealed that there is no breakthrough yet in the efforts to improve relations with Saudi Arabia, which Erdogan was supposed to visit this month, in conjunction with accelerated developments in the path of improving relations with Israel, and a stalemate in the path of restoring The normalization of relations with Egypt, which has not witnessed any real steps recently, amid reports of differences between the two countries over the issue of handing over opponents.

Despite the sharp Turkish-UAE disputes over more than 10 years, the two countries succeeded in achieving a major breakthrough in relations, culminating in the visit of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed to Ankara at the end of last year, and Erdogan's visit to Abu Dhabi , last Monday.

The exceptional reception that the UAE organized for Erdogan showed a real desire to reach what is greater than the re-normalization of relations and cooperation on a large scale in various bilateral and regional files, perhaps the most prominent of which are the economic and defense files, which was considered a search for new alliances that carried messages of competition between enemies and allies. The most prominent of them are Turkey, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

In this context, Saudi Arabia does not seem very satisfied with the size of the great rapprochement between the UAE and Turkey, and while analysts believe that Saudi Arabia still takes a hard stance on Turkey and opposes the Emirati rapprochement, Saudis believe that Riyadh was more entitled to build a new alliance with Turkey to help it face political and military challenges the kingdom is going through.

While analysts believe that Saudi Arabia still takes a hard stance on Turkey and opposes the Emirati rapprochement, Saudis believe that Riyadh was more deserving of building a new alliance with Turkey that would help it face the political and military challenges that the Kingdom is going through.

However, in the absence of official statements from the Saudi side at all about the course of improving relations with Turkey, the official Turkish statements focus on the narrative of the “positive atmosphere,” which is believed to be based on deliberate efforts to “create a positive atmosphere” and enhance efforts for rapprochement, but it is not based on To make real progress in improving relations.

In his statements during his return from the UAE, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country and Saudi Arabia are continuing the dialogue, and that progress is expected by taking concrete steps in the coming period. Erdogan was quoted as saying: "Our positive dialogue with Saudi Arabia continues, and we are waiting for progress through concrete steps in the coming period We want to advance this process with Saudi Arabia in a positive direction."

Last month, Erdogan told businessmen that he intends to visit Saudi Arabia this month to resolve political and economic differences between the two countries, but neither the Turkish president nor any Turkish official spoke about any steps to prepare for the visit or a timetable for it, while the Saudi side remained silent, which is likely not to Having a final agreement yet on the date of the visit.

While not ruling out sudden progress in efforts to improve relations between Ankara and Riyadh, the course of contacts over the past months shows the complexity of the file and the failure to achieve any major progress or breakthrough leading to a meeting between Erdogan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which is the decisive indicator of the breakthrough. Hopefully from the Turkish side.

Over the past year, a series of contacts took place at the level of Erdogan and King Salman, the ministers of foreign affairs and the economy, and other political levels, but there were no contacts between Erdogan and Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, who takes a hard stance towards Turkey and its president after the assassination of the Saudi journalist. Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul and Turkey's efforts to convict bin Salman in the case as "the head of the political level who gave orders to commit the crime."

Mohammed bin Salman takes a hard stance towards Turkey and its president following the crisis in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul and Ankara's efforts to convict him in the case.

The stalemate in the path of improving relations with Saudi Arabia is very similar to the existing path with Egypt, where for several months no progress was recorded in this path, which witnessed positive developments, last year, with contacts at the level of intelligence and low diplomacy, reaching the foreign ministers of the two countries, but without the breakthrough It is expected that a meeting between the two foreign ministers or contacts between presidents will be held.

In light of the Egyptian silence, and the continuous Turkish emphasis on the “positive track,” it clearly shows slight progress and the absence of breakthroughs, while media leaks predict sharp differences between the two sides due to Egypt’s insistence on handing over opponents present in Istanbul and Turkey’s refusal to achieve these demands.

The Antalya Diplomatic Conference, which is scheduled to be held in the middle of next month in Turkey, is an important indicator of the point at which the path of improving relations between Turkey on the one hand and Egypt and Saudi Arabia on the other has reached. Participation is an important indicator of progress. As for ignoring the conference in which dozens of foreign ministers will participate, It will be an indication of the failure of the talks to achieve any progress.

In a related context, Turkish diplomacy succeeded in achieving a development in the path of improving relations with Israel. After months of contacts at various levels, a high-ranking Turkish delegation arrived Wednesday to Israel to hold meetings with Israeli officials to prepare for the Israeli president's visit to Ankara , which Turkish sources confirmed will take place in The ninth of next month, in addition to confirming the participation of the Israeli foreign and energy ministers in the Antalya conference.