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When I Became the Messenger of Death to a Mother’s Heart There are moments in life that are not measured by the weight they place on the body, but by the weight they leave on the soul… moments when a person wishes they had never been created to endure them. One of the hardest moments I have ever lived through was that day when I found myself carrying a piece of news no human heart could bear… news that I had to place inside the heart of a mother. At that time, I was living through loss in every possible form. I was trying to learn how to breathe again after the loss of my brothers and my teacher, who were killed, and how to hide my pain so I could appear strong in front of everyone. I swallowed my tears in silence, hid my breaking behind words of patience, and carried inside me a graveyard of memories that no one could see. Until that morning came… I woke up to the ringing of my phone. The father of my children was on the other end. His voice was not normal; it carried something that frightened me before I even knew what it was. He said: “Nada… wake up and pray Fajr, then call me back… it’s urgent.” My heart froze. The first thing that came to my mind was my mother and father, whom I had been separated from for nine months at that time. I asked him with a trembling voice: “Did something happen to my family?” He said: “No.” His voice sounded truthful, but my heart felt that a disaster was hiding behind his words. I begged him: “Please… tell me, what happened?” But he repeated: “Pray and call me.” How can a person pray while their heart is suspended between fear and the unknown? I stood up, but my body did not feel like it belonged to me. I felt my heartbeat like the sound of explosions, and trembling spread through my legs, as if my soul was preparing to hear something that would change it forever. I kept begging him until he finally said the words that shattered what was left inside me: “Our neighbor in the tent across from us… all of her sons were killed. You have to tell her… there is no one else to carry this news to her.” I collapsed to the ground. I did not know what to say, or how a person could carry the death of an entire family and take it to a mother waiting for her sons to return. I heard his voice through the phone: “Nada… Nada… are you okay?” I prayed Fajr, but I did not feel like I was praying… I was crying and asking God to give me a strength that my body did not have, and patience greater than my heart could hold. Then I went outside. My neighbor was sitting at the entrance of her tent, as she always did, waiting for her sons the way every mother waits for a voice that reassures her. I approached her, and she smiled and said: “My sons… none of them are answering my calls.” At that moment, I felt as if a knife had pierced my chest. She had been calling them all day, searching for any voice, any word, any sign that they were still alive. I moved closer to her. She looked at me and asked: “What happened?” I could not hide anything… my face revealed the tragedy before my words could. I bent down and kissed her head. She looked up at me, held my hand tightly, as if she was reading the truth from my eyes, and said: “Which one of my sons was killed?” My voice became trapped. I swallowed my grief and felt, for a moment, that I had lost the ability to move. I reminded myself: I have to be strong… this moment is not about me, it is about her. But she repeated the question, tears filling her eyes: “Which one? Tell me… which one?” The word came out from the ruins of my heart: “All of them…” At that moment, a scream came out that I had never heard in my life. A mother’s scream who had not only lost her sons… but had lost her entire world in a single moment. The people of the camp gathered around us, but I could no longer see anyone. Everything around me disappeared. All that remained was the scream of that mother, and with it came the faces of everyone I had lost… my brothers, my teacher, my friend, and all the souls who left behind stories that no one remained to tell. At that moment, I asked myself: How many hearts can endure all this death? How many times can a person break and still stand again? Who will remain to carry the memories of those who left? Who will tell the pain of mothers who lost their children? And how can a single heart carry all this loss… and still continue to beat? https://gofund.me/83e09b493 #Gaza #Palestine #StandWithGaza #MutualAid #Humanity #SupportPalestine #SaveLives #EmergencyRelief