“My only consolation is that my brother achieved the title of Martyr”

Headline: “The Martyr’s sister – tears burn behind the camera”

“Femalejournalist Farah Qayyim from Nablus recently has grown used to covering the Martyrs’ funerals… and listening to stories about the Martyrs, while quietly shedding tears in sorrow and pain behind the camera. Farah did not imagine that one day she would be the sister of a Martyr, and that many would cry because of her crying and sorrow. She did not imagine that one day she would monitor the details of news about her brother’s death as a Martyr in a direct broadcast…

Farah received the news that her brother Hamdi [Qayyim] (i.e., terrorist, shot at Israeli soldiers) ascended to Heaven while she was covering the occupation’s aggression against Nablus on Oct. 25, [2022]…

With a sad voice and with pain, Farah told [the official PA daily] Al-Hayat Al-Jadida: ‘I know that life ends, this is the way of the world. No one is eternal in this temporary world. But the loss is painful. It wasn’t easy for me to receive this news when I heard it. My only consolation is that my brother achieved the title of Martyr.’ …

Farah said that she was unaware that her brother Hamdi was a resistance member or wanted by the occupation, but she said that he always hoped for Martyrdom and asked for it in his prayers when it rained.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 23, 2022]

Wadi’ Al-Houh, Ali Antar, Hamdi Qayyim, Mash’al Baghdadi, Hamdi Sharaf