By Faris al-Rifai
(Zaman Al Wasl) The activist Ali Abu al-Jawad recounted the details of the martyrdom of his family members following an explosive barrel being dropped in courtyard of his house in the Jaloum neighborhood in Aleppo a few days ago.
Abu al-Jawad explained to Zaman al-Wasl that he was visiting a friend in his office in old Aleppo when clashes broke out in the area surrounding Aleppo castle. His wife phoned him asking about the clashes and he answered, as he said, that the clashes are fragmented and asked them not to care or be afraid. His wife then asked if he would be late returning home so he answered her that he would be home in 10 minutes, but he was delayed for 15 minutes and then he heard the sound of the regime helicopter and after a few minutes an explosive barrel was dropped.
Abu al-Jawad continued, “when it fell I said to myself the barrel will fall on me so I said the Shahadet,” and then the grieving father added, “suddenly I heard the sound of a strong explosion in the area of Jaloum were my house is located, and it was only minutes before one of my friends told me the barrel fell on my house.” He added, “I went to my house and indeed I did not see a house but rubble and stone remains and then was the major shock so held myself and started to meditate by mentioning Allah.”
And then a group of the civil defense team came and they began to remove the rubble for two days for Abu al-Jawad to be surprised with the death of all his family member, and they are his four children Mohammad, Aysha, Afraa, and Obadeh, and their mother, and his second wife and her elderly father.
The bereaved father remembered an incident with his children after the siege of Aleppo was broken when he told them he intended to go to Idlib’s countryside, so they told him we will stay with you we die together or we become martyrs, or we win and our heads are held high. He indicated they used to run to him and sit in his lap afraid when the planes would bomb at night or during the day as they used to watch them from the roof of the house not showing any fear.
Our speaker added, “thank Allah for honoring me and taking my progeny and I am content with the Allah’s judgment and fate.” Abu al-Jawad wished that the other massacres happening in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria be brought to light as his tragedy as he says is a part, albeit small, of these other massacres.
Prior to the start of the revolution, Abu al-Jawad worked in photography and with the start of the revolution he accompanied the peaceful demonstrations filming them and from there he moved on to documenting the regime’s massacres and the Russian aggression with the same camera that he documented his tragedy of the death of his entire family.
(Zaman Al Wasl) The activist Ali Abu al-Jawad recounted the details of the martyrdom of his family members following an explosive barrel being dropped in courtyard of his house in the Jaloum neighborhood in Aleppo a few days ago.
Abu al-Jawad explained to Zaman al-Wasl that he was visiting a friend in his office in old Aleppo when clashes broke out in the area surrounding Aleppo castle. His wife phoned him asking about the clashes and he answered, as he said, that the clashes are fragmented and asked them not to care or be afraid. His wife then asked if he would be late returning home so he answered her that he would be home in 10 minutes, but he was delayed for 15 minutes and then he heard the sound of the regime helicopter and after a few minutes an explosive barrel was dropped.
Abu al-Jawad continued, “when it fell I said to myself the barrel will fall on me so I said the Shahadet,” and then the grieving father added, “suddenly I heard the sound of a strong explosion in the area of Jaloum were my house is located, and it was only minutes before one of my friends told me the barrel fell on my house.” He added, “I went to my house and indeed I did not see a house but rubble and stone remains and then was the major shock so held myself and started to meditate by mentioning Allah.”
And then a group of the civil defense team came and they began to remove the rubble for two days for Abu al-Jawad to be surprised with the death of all his family member, and they are his four children Mohammad, Aysha, Afraa, and Obadeh, and their mother, and his second wife and her elderly father.
The bereaved father remembered an incident with his children after the siege of Aleppo was broken when he told them he intended to go to Idlib’s countryside, so they told him we will stay with you we die together or we become martyrs, or we win and our heads are held high. He indicated they used to run to him and sit in his lap afraid when the planes would bomb at night or during the day as they used to watch them from the roof of the house not showing any fear.
Our speaker added, “thank Allah for honoring me and taking my progeny and I am content with the Allah’s judgment and fate.” Abu al-Jawad wished that the other massacres happening in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria be brought to light as his tragedy as he says is a part, albeit small, of these other massacres.
Prior to the start of the revolution, Abu al-Jawad worked in photography and with the start of the revolution he accompanied the peaceful demonstrations filming them and from there he moved on to documenting the regime’s massacres and the Russian aggression with the same camera that he documented his tragedy of the death of his entire family.
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