TIGblogs - Adham Khalil

"The Martyr Adham Khalil"

Your sky is full of birds, but ours is full of army planes and rockets…
Your sea is full of ships and fish, but ours is full of warships…
Your land is full of trees and rivers,but ours is full of tanks, checkpoints,
separation walls, and the rubble of destroyed

houses and agricultural land…
You breathe fresh air, but we breathe air mixed with rocket smoke…
You travel everywhere free, but we cannot travel from villageto village...
You and you and you and you and you,
but we not and not and not…

What I and my people have faced forces me to imagine that I will be killed by Israeli army occupation, but I don't know where and when it will happen. After this picture formed in my mind, I started imagining myself as a Palestinian martyr in which I see my family and my friends carrying my corpse in my funeral shouting “God is great, God is the greatest,” mixed with Palestinian national songs and also carrying my photos written on them:

the Martyr Adham Khalil.

I have told my family that if I am killed by the Israeli army of occupation to not put my corpse in a death freezer and to make only one day for consolation.

This is not only my feeling; this is the feeling of everyone who lives under

the illegal Israeli occupation.

I'm very proud that I'm Palestinian and I thank God every moment. This struggle and potential martyrdom is simply our destiny. We do not love death but in fact we are often killed when defending our nation and resisting the Israeli occupation.

Go on Palestinians—as you fight to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation you might be killed. Hell and shame for the Israeli soldiers and officers as they kill civilians and occupy the lands of others.