Where Does Honor Live, Father? — “It Lives in Palestine, My Daughter”
On the morning of 24-2-2025, a Palestinian girl stood in the rubble of a school in the Gaza Strip holding a cardboard sign to announce the start of classes alongside classmates, teachers and volunteers. The article recounts the scene and a father's reply: 'It lives in Palestine.'
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- Despite death, a Palestinian girl ...carrying a small cardboard sign in the courtyard of a destroyed school in Gaza.. this morning Monday 24-2-2025.. announces the start of classes.. in the Gaza Strip ..in the yard of a school destroyed in the Gaza Strip, alongside dozens of her classmates, who cooperated with female and male teachers ..and volunteers.. where they found a place among the rubble of the school destroyed by the Israeli occupation, to announce the start of classes. With a will that accepts nothing but making life.... despite the pains and horrors.. and the hardship of living...... ..she carries a cardboard sign ..small... but its meaning..great ..handwritten.. she asks her father ..."Where does honor live, my father? ....It lives in Palestine, my daughter"!! Her father answers her.. and he did not answer her in Gaza.. but in Palestine... their greater homeland ..where they do not recognize.. the hateful division !
- Whoever sees the children rejoicing at this event that they made with their own hands ..smiling, their faces lit by the beauty of the great spirit within them, and the beauty of their faces.. you would think that nothing had happened... they are planting their feet firmly ..rooted in their homeland...
- All salute, reverence and respect ...to these generations that .....that understand the meaning of homeland ...and its construction and arming themselves with knowledge... when the occupation tried to annihilate their families and the edifices of their knowledge and the facilities of their lives ..in order to remain ..an occupier of their land..
- They are great and venerable... in their will and their spirit that does not know despair... so they recreate life anew on their land and the land of their fathers and ancestors... where splendor and beauty... defying all the might of brutality ..who are small in the eyes of these great children ..!
- All respect, reverence and pride for this people... who cannot be vanquished!
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “Where Does Honor Live, Father? — “It Lives in Palestine, My Daughter”” (English translation of «أين يسكن العز يا والدي؟ ....انه يسكن في فلسطين يا ابنتي"!!», originally published 24 February 2025), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/where-does-honor-live-father-it-lives
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