Glance on Society's Tragedy

A woman who broke the silence barrier… a woman who woke up from the deathbed which  almost shot her body dead in an attempt to steal her most precious things she owned for her siblings.. but she won the battle. May be thirty-seven bullets have penetrated her body, and the wasteland was her only way… but she struggled and survived…

Life has ravaged her.. however, her ravaged life kept away in a devastative corner of her heart… to teach us how we can search for a place where we can leave the worries and pain around us and meet people with a smile full of hope.. and to teach us how to leave this life winners not losers!

A woman who reflected the real image of resistance, struggle and the defending of homeland and human being whose blood is of great value! But she had to pay her freedom of movement a price for such values and get, in return, a wheelchair, diapers, and some plastic bags for the rest of her life… yet she did not mind!

 An Israeli tank monitored her movements and knew that she was harboring some national security guards to protect them in times of incursions. One fine day, she went harvesting some food to prepare the lunch carrying her little baby with her when suddenly the Israeli tank opened its mass destructive fires at her leaving her with thirty-seven 250mm bullets in her body. All she cared about at that moment was her little baby whom she believed to have lost his limbs. But when she realized that he was fine, she made the testimony thinking that she will surely die.. but destiny played its role and she survived to narrate this story that taught her a lot of lessons for life!

After becoming disabled for the rest of her life, she got divorced, the matter that doubled the burdens on her shoulders as she became the breadwinner and the householder of a family of seven members.

Her small poor and damaged house, that does not fit for humans to live in, consists of only two bedrooms with no windows or doors except for some pieces of plastic as a door.

She is a mother like all the other mothers but the only difference is that she has partial polio. She sacrificed for her children and will sacrifice even more if she has to.

When asked about how she spends her day, she proudly said: “I’m a mother of school children, and I do everything I can to ensure they feel comfortable.. it’s me who bakes, cocks, feeds them, does the laundry and all the house work, and it’s me also who medicates my children when they are sick. It’s me who gives my children love and care” . Then she sighed and sadly said: “Because I’m their mother and because I care for them, I crawl to serve my children… but what if I died? Who else would look after my children except for Allah!” .

One day I was a mother for all people.. I protected them… covered them… and I welcomed them in my house to protect them from certain death…I paid a high price for that, but I am proud of myself for doing so. This is the real profit I have ever gained in whole my life.

"I appeal to everyone who has conscious to come and observe my ordeal along with my sons whose the only breadwinner is me. I am of no might now. My calamity  shall tell you how much I suffer" . Randa beseeches to the world.

She is a women, has given much to her country, she sacrificed her soul, recognizing the danger that could revolve her .However, she has continued her struggle till the last life. Perhaps a lot of you have heard about her glorious heroism with the Palestinian militants. She is the disabled combatant, Zeinab Abdel Salam Al-Faleet.