Friday of Resurrection, Resurrection and Redemption

From the cross of pain, hope springs forth, salvation comes, the chapters of torment and suffering end, tyrants fall in the resurrection of truth and hope, justice prevails, injustice is silenced, and the voice of truth rises in the land of truth.

Amidst the pain, hope grows, when truth triumphs and humanity triumphs over terrorism, extremism, and hateful racism.

It is the Friday of the Palestinian people who are living these days under the fire of bombing, killing, and destruction, with the continuation of the war of genocide that has not stopped, but rather continues with all its tools and actions that have left nothing viable for life, and have destroyed everything and turned Gaza into a piece of ruin.

It is the Friday of the Palestinian who dies under the rubble of bombing and destruction, in the open and displaced streets, from hunger and bombardment, amid daily suffering and a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing that continues while the world continues its silence, witnessing the massacre and not taking action to stop it. This is what we witness in terms of global and international weakness and cowardice in the corridors of UN bodies.

It is the Friday of deliverance from injustice and oppression, the Friday of sadness and anger, and the Friday of death that heralds the resurrection.

Resurrection Friday is not an end, but rather the beginning of a new life built on the ruins of pain, rising from the ashes of devastation, and born from the womb of patience and steadfastness like the phoenix. It is the Friday of the Palestinian who continues to believe that in every death lies life, in every pain lies hope, in every destruction lies the promise of reconstruction, and with every martyr lies a new pulse of life.

It is the Friday of those who do not leave their homelands even as they leave this life, who bury their children with one hand and raise the banner of steadfastness with the other, who paint their pain on the walls of destroyed homes and write their names in the book of dignity and heroism.

It is a Friday of the highest human meaning: that truth be crucified and never die, that the dream be buried and never forgotten, that the voice of life be raised from the rubble, and that Gaza, despite the wounds, write its book in the ink of the blood of the martyrs, and say to the world: “We will remain here.”