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[00:00:32] funerals. I didn't go to
[00:00:56] we came back here to
[00:01:07] longer sits at
[00:01:40] the village. On
[00:01:40] were waiting for their owners. and came to
[00:02:20] And then when we returned to
[00:02:28] The return is not a path. It is a covenant that
[00:02:31] never ends, no matter how long the absence and no matter
[00:02:34] how much the wars have burdened the days,
[00:02:37] the land still calls, and its people do not miss
[00:02:40] it. Hearts still have a direction that
[00:02:44] distances do not change. Here in
[00:02:47] Al-Abbasiya, the past months were not
[00:02:50] just a time of waiting, but
[00:02:54] a test of a relationship that wars
[00:02:57] He arrived at do not sever between man and his land, and the
[00:03:00] harshness of
[00:03:03] Hamza was one separation affects it. Today, its people return,
[00:03:06] not to reclaim houses only, but to restore
[00:03:10] the pulse to the place and confirm that what
[00:03:13] is built with belonging and watered by sacrifices cannot
[00:03:16] be destroyed by wars, nor can
[00:03:19] its features be erased by
[00:03:22] someone was requested from years. From here, the story begins
[00:03:25] between the moment of departure and the moment of return. Long months of
[00:03:29] waiting passed, but some places do not leave
[00:03:33] their owners, no matter how far they go. Today,
[00:03:36] the people of the South return to the villages they carried
[00:03:40] with them in memory. Here we
[00:03:43] start
[00:03:45] has history. This our story at the beginning of the village. Honestly,
[00:03:48] my heart is pounding, there's something inside me
[00:03:52] that makes me feel like I'm here, like
[00:03:55] a flower in the soil that grows in the pot. You can't take it out of it if
[00:03:59] it's something like this. I feel like the seller
[00:04:02] is, I don't know, I'll see, maybe
[00:04:05] I'll find a house, I mean, if the house is gone, it's normal, because
[00:04:09] periods. So the shelter center what's more precious than the house literally,
[00:04:12] but this is our trace in life, our trace, we will remain here no matter what
[00:04:16] we sacrifice for it, and no matter what we want to sacrifice for it, and no matter what,
[00:04:19] we will keep carrying it. Unfortunately,
[00:04:22] we are always sacrificing, but I'll tell you,
[00:04:25] I don't know if anyone is sacrificing for us.
[00:04:28] بعرف.
[00:04:31] But the South remains
[00:04:34] land reclaims its owners. Here in 2035 square, not missing thanks
[00:04:37] from the time of the Phoenicians. Prince Alaa, his relationship was
[00:04:40] tense with some. Prince Alaa was a resistant, meaning from the time of
[00:04:43] I tell them, maybe it's foggy in the Phoenicians, we have been resisting, not meaning we are from
[00:04:47] a history of only 1400 years, and we are still resisting until
[00:04:50] today. We will resist, we will resist. History writes
[00:04:53] itself, and we are reborn with a new generation that
[00:04:57] will resist. This is how we are used to, this is how we are, and this is what will happen
[00:05:01] to us. That's why we are not afraid of anything that happens
[00:05:03] to us.
[00:05:21] Thank God, the blessings of the Lord of the worlds, that I found the house. It's not
[00:05:24] a thought of something when you look at yourself in your house, harmed, say thank
[00:05:28] God, because you look at the issue of someone else, for example, our neighbor
[00:05:31] who is more harmed than you, you look at our other neighbor whose house is gone,
[00:05:34] you look and say, like we have a saying that we have memorized,
[00:05:38] he who sees someone else's misfortune, his misfortune is on his own misfortune. So how about the one who
[00:05:41] also, other than the one whose house is gone, someone relieved him, this
[00:05:45] you walk, you walk on the principle of gradualness.
[00:05:49] So in the matter of life, that the house is also
[00:05:52] expensive, I mean, I'll tell it as it is. One enters his house
[00:05:56] and comes out with his memories. As soon as you find yourself away from your house for a day, I mean,
[00:06:00] two, three months, which is this period, one day
[00:06:03] you find yourself back home, automatically, a flashback comes to you about
[00:06:07] the last day you were in this house. So the last day in this house was Ramadan,
[00:06:10] and the situation was normal. And we were living normally in this
[00:06:13] house, and suddenly it was like, "Let's
[00:06:17] go." The first thing I thought about was the argument, meaning,
[00:06:21] I have a responsibility for this person, she is my trust.
[00:06:25] And also, what does another person have, and what does another person have, and what does another person have? So you look
[00:06:29] at your life and yourself that life is
[00:06:32] this short, and at the same time, how much you have
[00:06:35] the instinct, the instinct to live, you are left to resist, even
[00:06:38] to live. This in itself is resistance. Houses
[00:06:41] are not just walls, they are the memory we return
[00:06:45] to whenever distances narrow around us. And in these
[00:06:48] houses, complete ages of memories
[00:07:18] When we found out there were several raids on our village,
[00:07:22] we said, "Not the stones." We said, "Not the stones, they'll go,
[00:07:25] we'll come back, everything will be rebuilt, but hopefully, the people in our hearts
[00:07:29] will be fine."
[00:07:33] the village and the ceasefire happened,
[00:07:36] we prayed in our house. A martyr
[00:07:39] came out. We were saddened, we were upset,
[00:07:42] but nothing is
[00:07:45] more precious than humans. The stones can be replaced,
[00:07:48] everything. And
[00:07:52] this house, which was the family home that gathered all of us,
[00:07:56] our gatherings, our lives, our holidays, we used to spend
[00:07:59] all our time here, and we returned
[00:08:03] to our land, we returned to our home,
[00:08:06] and the entire South belongs to us, and everything here
[00:08:09] belongs to us, and we will rebuild, we will
[00:08:12] build. Even if we make a tent, we will sit in it,
[00:08:15] we will return, no matter how much we are displaced, no matter how much we leave,
[00:08:19] we will return at the first opportunity we get,
[00:08:23] we will return to our home and our land.
[00:08:43] Thank God, thank God that we returned to our homes, certainly thanks
[00:08:46] to God, the mujahideen, the youth, and the pure blood
[00:08:50] that was shed. Thank God, but as for us
[00:08:53] as a house, it certainly
[00:08:57] house, I inherited it from my family, it's not
[00:09:01] messed with, not worked on. Everything that was worked on it, was worked on,
[00:09:04] nothing was changed in its external appearance,
[00:09:07] based on the fact that it holds the memories of the primary family, the
[00:09:11] father, the mother, the whole family grew
[00:09:14] up here. It has many great
[00:09:17] memories. I got married, had children, and have a family here.
[00:09:21] Of course, it has many great
[00:09:24] and precious memories. As for these matters, with the Israelis, God help
[00:09:27] us. The Israeli sheds blood
[00:09:31] of children without permission, orphans families
[00:09:35] without permission, and perhaps they consider
[00:09:38] this an achievement. And praise be to God, praise be to God, praise
[00:09:41] be to God. Thanks to God and the mujahideen
[00:09:45] and the pure blood that was shed, we were able to return
[00:09:49] and we were able, God willing, to build
[00:09:51] and live better than before. Thank God, in the previous
[00:09:55] war,
[00:09:57] they called it the war of support or something like that.
[00:10:00] I was also out
[00:10:02] at
[00:10:05] 4 AM. I was here. My house
[00:10:08] wasn't hit, meaning my house was glass, meaning it wasn't hit.
[00:10:14] I was here at 4 AM,
[00:10:15] and now
[00:10:18] when the strike happened,
[00:10:20] frankly, my dearest friends,
[00:10:24] I was with them always,
[00:10:26] we used to sit with them constantly in front of the shops,
[00:10:30] meaning God
[00:10:33] chose them and they received the medal of martyrdom. Thank
[00:10:36] God, they ended their lives with a very
[00:10:40] high medal of martyrdom. At the moment of the strike,
[00:10:43] frankly, the first ones I lost were them. They
[00:10:46] told me that
[00:10:47] they were martyred.
[00:10:51] So I won't hide it from you, that morning I
[00:10:54] attended their
[00:10:57] bed. Excuse me, the word
[00:11:00] "house" is very, very, very precious to
[00:11:03] every breadwinner, and there are proverbs that say
[00:11:07] that livelihood is equivalent to the soul, but thank God, there is something more precious than the soul,
[00:11:11] which is honor, dignity, and land, because
[00:11:14] these are the basics to be able to build a house and make
[00:11:18] a shirt and a soul. While many
[00:11:22] left, others chose memories.
[00:11:38] I am sick. I have a condition in my heart. I have a pacemaker. I have
[00:11:42] a valve. The doctor used to tell me to be careful, and I told them I wanted to stay
[00:11:45] in my land. They told me to leave. I told them, "No, this is
[00:11:48] my land, this is my country, this is our home." We didn't imagine people
[00:11:52] would return. This is our homeland. This is our soil.
[00:11:57] When you hear the call to prayer in your country,
[00:12:00] you feel something not normal.
[00:12:04] We don't leave. For whom? In the first period, some shops were still
[00:12:08] open, meaning there was a time when the plane
[00:12:12] would come out, we wouldn't show up, but
[00:12:15] we would show up and warn how to go get our groceries. But
[00:12:19] thank God, thank God.
[00:12:22] The young men who stayed here, all of them, God helped them,
[00:12:25] they gave,
[00:12:26] they gave
[00:12:30] more than you can imagine.
[00:12:34] I mean, thank God, Al-Abbasiya
[00:12:37] is my country, my blood, my soil,
[00:12:40] my children, my siblings, my
[00:12:43] whole life. Since 1978, I was
[00:12:46] only eight years old and witnessed war here. How can I
[00:12:49] leave it? My children say if anything happens again, my children
[00:12:53] say if anything happens again, we won't leave, we'll stay on our land.
[00:13:13] The steadfast people in Al-Abbasiya, we made a decision from the very
[00:13:16] first day, from the municipality of Al-Abbasiya, to
[00:13:19] repair the electricity network, repair
[00:13:22] water malfunctions, and open roads.
[00:13:27] The electricity subscription line. So there was a complete working team
[00:13:31] on this matter. We, throughout the war,
[00:13:34] the power outage did not exceed four days only, due to
[00:13:38] urgent malfunctions that would occur at night due to
[00:13:41] shelling or a night targeting. We
[00:13:45] couldn't move safely because of this.
[00:13:48] The shelter center,
[00:13:51] we, the Union of Tyre Municipalities, thank
[00:13:54] you, and the South Council, thank you, we were able
[00:13:57] to secure its basic needs of mattresses,
[00:14:00] blankets, pillows, hot meals daily,
[00:14:03] food rations, hygiene rations throughout
[00:14:07] the war, which lasted three months and 20 days.
[00:14:11] The shelter center still today
[00:14:14] includes about 20 families. And
[00:14:18] if things continue this way, we will reopen it
[00:14:22] completely because there are many families from the villages that
[00:14:25] are occupied or the villages that are liberated,
[00:14:29] but most of their houses are gone, in need of shelter for certain
[00:14:34] is still operating until today.
[00:14:37] The residents and the people of the South in general,
[00:14:41] believe me, they don't need a house to return to,
[00:14:44] they just need land. Any
[00:14:47] Southerner is willing to come and bring his tent
[00:14:50] and set it up, as long as he is on his land,
[00:14:53] because the land is
[00:14:55] our land, it is our dignity. Houses are there to strengthen us, but the most important thing
[00:14:59] is the land.
[00:15:03] And now you feel a stage that many people feel is foggy.
[00:15:08] the short term, but in the long term, there's no way.
[00:15:12] We fought this enemy for 18 years and liberated it,
[00:15:16] and we'll fight it for 18 or 20 years, and we'll liberate it again.
[00:15:20] The South has been attached to its land since the days of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari. We
[00:15:24] are on this land and we will remain on this land until, God willing, the appearance of
[00:15:27] the Imam. We will not leave this land. We have watered it with the blood
[00:15:31] of the mujahideen and the blood of civilians. The land for which we have sacrificed so much,
[00:15:35] we will never give up on it. So the return
[00:15:38] is always because we love this land so much. It is
[00:15:42] our land, it is our dignity, it is our religion. That's
[00:15:45] why you find that
[00:15:48] they would say there was a ceasefire at 12 o'clock, and you would find people
[00:15:52] in the villages at 11:30. The future is
[00:15:55] definitely ours, but it's a stage that requires
[00:15:58] patience, a stage that requires sacrifice,
[00:16:02] because the goal is something very big. The goal
[00:16:05] is victory over an enemy
[00:16:08] who possesses what he possesses in superiority.
[00:16:12] And clinging to the land, these things require a great price and require patience.
[00:16:16] They might come and say, "Go back to your villages." We replied, "No, we are sacrificing
[00:16:19] blood, we are sacrificing from
[00:16:22] our livelihoods, and God willing, we will return to our land. We are
[00:16:25] on our land. The land we returned to,
[00:16:29] the land that is currently occupied, we will reclaim it, and God
[00:16:32] willing, even Jerusalem. Many returned to their homes,
[00:16:36] but some returned to the absence of their loved ones. In
[00:16:40] every home there is a story, and in every story there is a name that no
[00:16:45] the table. On May 31st,
[00:17:00] at 7:26 AM precisely, we were subjected to a very
[00:17:04] violent raid in the village. As usual, we headed to the site of the raid
[00:17:07] to check if there were martyrs or injured. When I arrived,
[00:17:11] I found my father's motorcycle.
[00:17:14] It was a shock. First thing, the first person I found
[00:17:18] was my father. I carried him, I carried him to the ground,
[00:17:21] I put him on the stretcher, I gave him to the young men who took him to the hospital,
[00:17:25] and the first thing I did was notify my family. And while my father was being
[00:17:28] put in the ambulance, there was also a young man next
[00:17:32] to me, a friend of mine named Ali Khalil, who was also martyred four
[00:17:36] days after my father. We are steadfast here, just like
[00:17:39] the civilian people who stood firm in case, God
[00:17:43] forbid, there were raids, injured, or martyrs, so that we could rescue them,
[00:17:47] so that we could save lives, not just us as an organization, but
[00:17:51] also the Islamic Message Association also remained
[00:17:54] steadfast with us. We were one hand, shoulder to shoulder
[00:17:57] with each other, to try to relieve the people as much
[00:18:00] as we could.
[00:18:11] On the 6th of the month, at around noon,
[00:18:15] they called me and said there was a drone raid near the cemetery.
[00:18:19] I turned around and set off, not knowing who the people were or anything. When
[00:18:23] I arrived, I was surprised to find three of my friends, one of them, as they
[00:18:26] say, a lifelong friend, my dearest friend. I
[00:18:29] went down and checked. The first young man turned out to be martyred.
[00:18:34] our hospital.
[00:18:36] It was very difficult for us, regardless
[00:18:40] of everything that happened. That day was very difficult
[00:18:43] for us, regardless of the martyrs who died. There were
[00:18:47] also many martyrs who died before for this
[00:18:49] land. The Israeli enemy coveted
[00:18:53] our land to occupy it. And thanks to
[00:18:57] the blood of the martyrs and the blood of the wounded, it is impossible for them to take an inch of
[00:19:00] our land.
[00:19:22] I have four martyrs, two sons
[00:19:25] and two grandsons.
[00:19:30] I have Qasim and Ali,
[00:19:32] Mahdi,
[00:19:34] and Hussein.
[00:19:37] Let me talk about Qasim and about
[00:19:39] Ali.
[00:19:42] Ali specifically and Qasim are among the young people who
[00:19:46] love life. They love life
[00:19:49] with dignity. They love life
[00:19:51] with
[00:19:54] honor.
[00:19:57] Therefore, they chose to defend the
[00:20:01] land and and
[00:20:04] the holy sites.
[00:20:07] To live with dignity on the soil of the homeland,
[00:20:10] to live a life of honor.
[00:20:13] We taught people who were successful in their lives.
[00:20:16] Ali was one of the ambitious
[00:20:19] young people.
[00:20:22] Ali worked very hard
[00:20:25] for his future.
[00:20:28] He stayed up late, it took
[00:20:32] a lot from him, it took effort from him, it took
[00:20:35] toil. He, I'm telling you, the best podcast, but I'll come back
[00:20:38] to do it, meaning we were lucky.
[00:20:42] Every time I remember when I wanted to do it here, I would write in black,
[00:20:45] its decorations and so on, and not on October 7th. Now we're doing it in
[00:20:49] 3D, meaning that's it.
[00:20:53] So in the war,
[00:20:57] he kept defending.
[00:20:59] And
[00:21:02] he decided to defend
[00:21:06] his homeland and his land,
[00:21:09] so that we can live with honor.
[00:21:13] When we went down to the car and I got in
[00:21:16] the car, I couldn't comprehend that the one
[00:21:20] who was always by my side, whom I used to kiss and sit next to,
[00:21:24] now I'm seeing him martyred in front of me. I'm seeing his car that
[00:21:27] the enemy targeted burned and charred
[00:21:30] in front of me. This scene
[00:21:33] affected me greatly, and I started crying, and my grandfather came
[00:21:37] here and hugged me, and my uncle, the mukhtar, took our picture
[00:21:41] when the ceasefire
[00:21:43] happened. When
[00:21:46] the village, the first thing I thought of
[00:21:50] was my uncle. I mean, I immediately
[00:21:54] thought of them. As soon as I came back, I went to them
[00:21:56] and visited them. We recited Al-Fatiha,
[00:21:59] and on this day, I visited them several times, and I even
[00:22:03] sat at night and lit
[00:22:05] candles for them. This land means
[00:22:09] a lot to us. I mean, if it didn't mean anything to my uncle or
[00:22:12] to my father or to all the martyrs, they wouldn't
[00:22:16] have been martyred and sacrificed their precious blood.
[00:22:20] The land. When the ceasefire
[00:22:23] happened, we immediately packed
[00:22:27] our clothes
[00:22:30] the way, I was thinking of my father
[00:22:34] and my uncle. I missed them so much,
[00:22:37] and the first thing I wanted to do was
[00:22:40] visit them. And as soon as we arrived, we immediately
[00:22:44] slept. We arrived at night. The next
[00:22:48] day, I immediately went to them in the morning and sat
[00:22:51] with them and recited Al-Fatiha for them.
[00:22:54] My father and his uncle were martyred
[00:22:57] to defend this land, and so that
[00:23:00] the enemy would not take this land that belongs to us,
[00:23:04] because this land is where we grew up, and it's where we have
[00:23:08] all our memories, and our laughter,
[00:23:11] and it's where we cried and were sad, and where we rejoiced,
[00:23:15] and where we succeeded and failed. It's everything
[00:23:18] in our lives. The land is our land,
[00:23:22] so why should the enemy take it? He has no right
[00:23:25] to. That's why all the martyrs
[00:23:28] died for this land to return to us.
[00:23:53] of the young men who had a great attachment to the land and the homeland,
[00:23:56] and he was one of the lovers of
[00:24:00] Imam Hussein, so he was greatly affected by the Karbala revolution,
[00:24:03] by Imam Hussein, by the martyrdom of Imam Hussein.
[00:24:07] So despite the fact that he was educated, when
[00:24:12] the village to be a martyr, he immediately
[00:24:15] was the first to say, "I am the first to be a martyr, I am the first
[00:24:18] to be a martyr." And he was, may God grant him success, it was
[00:24:22] his destiny to go out, and of course, as soon as I entered the house,
[00:24:25] the first thing that came to mind was Hamza.
[00:24:28] Hamza left his mark in every spot
[00:24:32] in the house, left a sweet memory.
[00:24:35] Our children, what drove them to go out
[00:24:38] and sacrifice their pure and innocent blood, their love for this
[00:24:41] land, their sincerity, their loyalty, their truthfulness. This
[00:24:44] land raised them, they grew up in it,
[00:24:47] they took root in it.
[00:24:50] Their families, their friends, they learned in it,
[00:24:52] they played together, they went out together.
[00:24:55] And of course, every time we go out and sit,
[00:24:59] we return, we return thanks to this pure,
[00:25:02] innocent blood, thanks to their blood, thanks to their sacrifices, thanks to
[00:25:06] their boundless generosity. Wars end
[00:25:09] when the cannons fall silent, but their true
[00:25:12] end begins when people return to their homes,
[00:25:16] when windows are opened again, and children return
[00:25:20] to the streets, and the
[00:25:24] the South, the return does not seem like just the end
[00:25:27] of a war, but the beginning of a new life.
[00:26:24] My sister went to her house to live with her
[00:26:27] husband. She was pregnant for a month
[00:26:30] and a half.
[00:26:33] Until the enemy decided
[00:26:35] to launch raids. This
[00:26:39] is what surrounded
[00:26:42] my sister
[00:26:43] and her child.
[00:26:48] My sister was a month
[00:26:50] and a half pregnant.
[00:26:56] Untold, like the Zionist entities want to erase
[00:26:59] all manner of heritage. on the Palestinian
[00:27:03] and Lebanese and Iranian um side, uh
[00:27:07] because um then they want to
[00:27:11] manipulate the narrative to suit their own needs,
[00:27:14] uh like, "Oh, this land was promised to us."
[00:29:16] Press TV headlines, the IRGC Ground Forces Commander says armed forces
[00:29:20] are fully prepared to deliver decisive response, damning hostile
[00:29:23] action, following his visit to Iranian Persian Gulf
[00:29:26] Island. U.S. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has
[00:29:30] filed eight articles of impeachment again. War
[00:29:32] Secretary.