The Silent Farewell of Souls in Gaza
Unspoken moments, unseen signs, and the quiet weight of farewell in a place shaped by loss.
Foreword
Here’s the next installment of Abood A’s story from Gaza. We don’t really know how to introduce this one — some truths are too raw to wrap in neat language, and this is one of them. All we can do is hand it to you as it is, and let you meet it honestly.
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I will tell you about something that cannot be seen with the eyes, but only felt here in Gaza…
Something like a hidden secret that passes between souls before death, as if hearts receive signs that the human mind can neither explain nor fully comprehend. Perhaps my words may sound spiritual, and even I myself do not completely understand them, but I know these things do not happen without reason, and that there are divine causes behind them known only to God.
In Gaza, people have come to believe that every person carries a soul that somehow knows the time of its departure hours before death, and that this soul begins to reveal its final farewell in a silent way that not everyone notices.
A person’s behavior changes strangely before they die…
They become calmer, kinder, and closer to the people they love.
Those around them feel that something about them has changed, that there is a beauty and purity in them they cannot explain, yet they do not realize that destiny is quietly approaching them.
And this is exactly what happens to many of us in Gaza.
Countless stories have repeated themselves in the same heartbreaking way, until they became something understood only by those who have tasted loss.
The young man who is about to be targeted suddenly feels his heart soften toward the people around him, especially toward his mother.
He sits beside her for long periods, looks at her differently, speaks to her with an unusual tenderness, as if he is trying to leave part of his soul inside her heart before leaving this world.
And the mother alone notices these changes deeply.
She feels that her son has become more positive, more peaceful, as though his face is glowing with a light unlike ordinary human light.
She sees him becoming beautiful in a way that hurts the heart, and feels as though his soul has already begun drawing closer to heaven. Yet despite noticing all of this… she will never know destiny, nor will she understand what awaits her son only hours later.
Then destiny arrives suddenly.
An airstrike comes, and God wills for her son to be martyred.
The mother stands shattered before the truth, and only then does she begin to understand everything too late.
She remembers his final looks, the way he sat near her, his calm voice, his strange smile… and she cries:
“My son was saying goodbye to me…
I saw it for days, but I did not understand.
My son was an angel…
My son was someone who will never come again.”
And this mother is right…
She truly noticed what her son’s soul was trying to tell her before his departure, but she could never do anything against destiny.
Because no matter how deeply humans love, they remain powerless before what God has written.
Of course, this may not apply to everyone, because it depends on the spiritual depth within a person, on how close they are to God, and on their faith that everything in this life exists for a reason, even the things the human mind cannot explain.
And in Gaza…
Sometimes it feels as though certain souls begin ascending toward heaven before their bodies even leave this earth, as if God grants them one final light of farewell, so that after death, their memory remains more alive than the living themselves.
This hits hard. The final farewell to a loved one, to a mother. Mothers burying their children . Humanity left us a long long time ago and not just the last three years. Truly speechless
Moving