An eloquent testimony on the dozens of Palestinian captives released after they were tortured to death and mutilated 

Dr Munir al-Barsh

Director: Health Ministry in Gaza

Without Farewell… Without Identity

 

Without farewell, without mothers’ trembling hands reaching for one last touch, without wives waving goodbye— their reunion postponed to heaven.

Without children scattering flowers and jasmine over the bodies of fathers who will never wake again,without funerals to honor the majesty of loss.

Our sons are buried nameless, without identity, without a final goodbye.

Their faces erased by torture and fire, their souls left to speak the truth that bodies no longer can.

Doctors cover their noses and mouths as if standing in an operating room, not a graveyard.

They count the martyrs:
“This is number seven… this is twenty… this is fifty-four.”

Have our dearest become mere numbers written on black bags?

What betrayal is this?

What chilling silence has numbed the conscience of the world?

We bury crowns of our heads, the pieces of our souls, while only the words of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab console us:

“It matters not if Omar does not know them—Allah knows them.”

They are the unknown martyrs, their names withheld because the occupier refused to release the records and destroyed the labs that could reveal who they were.

Yet heaven knows each of them by name, and the earth testifies: in Gaza, pain is never buried.”