from Mondoweiss
Muhammad Imad Abdel Hadi traveled from Khan Younis to Rafah on May 27 to obtain food after hearing that the American and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was distributing aid in the Tal al-Sultan area. Amid the chaos that erupted at the distribution point, starving Palestinians desperate for food stormed the site and forced the American mercenaries manning it to retreat.
Muhammad was one of the people who managed to secure a food parcel for his family. He was on his way back with the joyful news when the Israeli army killed him before he could deliver it.
Muhammad’s mother, Rehab Abdel Hadi, dressed in black, now carries her son’s coffin at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and walks in his funeral procession. Holding the coffin with one hand and placing the other on her chest, she speaks aloud to herself as she walks toward the cemetery: “My eldest son is dead. The light has gone from my eyes.”
Rehab laments that her eldest son went to get food for the family, and that he left walking on his own two feet, but was carried back on people’s shoulders...
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