Have you ever seen Ward walk slowly, stumble, then get up, wipe the fire off her face with trembling hands and bulging eyes, and feel her way through the hot coals with bare feet?!
Have you seen that little girl lost in the middle of hell, fleeing from the embers into the fire, leaving behind her mother and six of her siblings struggling with the tongues of flame that consumed their bodies at dawn while they were asleep?
I write with trembling hands and tearful, bleeding eyes, as I watch that little rose trying to escape the fire, waiting for a hand to reach out to help and embrace her, after God made the fire cool and peaceful for her tender body, just as He made it for our master Abraham.
Ward, the sole survivor of the neo-Nazi Holocaust, is one of the few children who were saved from death by burning, while the specter of death by starvation continues to haunt their peers, their souls spilling into the hands of their fathers and mothers.
Ward survived, while the fire consumed the bodies of her siblings in the tent, and before them the children of pediatrician Alaa Al-Najjar: Yahya, Rakan, Arslan, Jibran, Eve, Rivan, Sidin, Luqman, Sidar, and Adam, who shares his father's critical wounds. They are still in intensive care.
Words, at least or most of them, are no longer capable of stirring emotions, arousing interest, or causing the necessary shock to halt the aggression and protect children, who are the target bank in the game of killing and entertainment for amateurs in the "Army of Extermination," as retired General Yair Golan admitted.
Will the image of Ward, the little girl who survived the incinerator, prompt the world to act quickly to stop the slaughter in Gaza, just as the image of Phan Thi Kim, known as the "Napalm Girl," prompted the world to stop the war in Vietnam?
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Roses on the edges of hellfire!