By Ahsana Kunnathedath
"Mama, I am hungry," Ahmed said with a growling stomach. " Child, I know that you are hungry, but what can I do, as we are not given food and many other children are also starving like my little Ahmed? Anyway, let's go outside to fetch some water, or else we have to spend even this day without water," Mama said with tears in her eyes. Later, Mama and Ahmed went out, and they could hear the loud sounds of airstrikes that were moving right above their heads ." Mama, when will we live our life and sleep peacefully at night without this terrible sound " asked Ahmed with fear. "Everyone in this place is hoping for it, but only God knows it, and what we can do is pray for it." They tried to fetch water and only got half of a bucket. While returning, Ahmed kept his hand on his growling stomach and looked around, but he could only find some scattered pieces of flesh and blood spilled everywhere. " Mama, if these flesh are from the children like me, will I also be a flesh like this?" Ahmed asked with hesitation. Mama looked at him with sadness, without knowing what to say to him, and told him, " No, if the strip is open, we can move to another country." Ahmed smiled happily. While they were returning, they saw a fire at a house, and everyone was running towards it and could hear the screaming of many people. Mama hugged Ahmed strongly and moved fast forward, thinking that he would get frightened. "Mama, our house was also burned this way, where I missed my favorite teddy bear. Mama, you said that we would go to hell when we do something wrong, so all the people of Palestine had done some sins." Ahmed asked with confusion." No, Ahmed, we would go to hell only after we die, not when we are alive; these are all the tests of God to know whether Ahmed is strong and will still hold faith strongly." Ahmed listened to his mother and said that I would show god that I am stronger. Mama hears this and kisses his forehead. Mama thinks about the house that they just passed by and took a long breath. They head back to the tent. "Mama, I am still hungry." Suddenly, a woman came with a piece of bread and handed it over to Ahmed. Ahmed received it with a happy face. The woman smiled and left the tent. Before he could eat that bread, they heard a scream and ran outside and were dumbstruck. They saw the same woman who left the tent a few moments back had been severely injured and was screaming for help and everyone took her and was searching for an ambulance. Ahmed was looking at his piece of bread and then over to his Mama's face fearfully. Before Mama could take him inside the tent, Israel forces pulled her hand forcefully and taken away. Ahmed cried strongly and ran towards her, but some of them quickly took him inside the tent. He could no longer hear Mama's sound. He was terrified and was screaming. Everyone tried to comfort him but nothing worked. He ran towards everyone asking for his Mama. Later that day, Ahmed was taken to the place where his mother was found."Mama, mama, why does your body have many injuries, and why are you sleeping here? Come with me to the tent and drag her hand by crying loudly. Everyone surrounding there sadly told Ahmed that his mother would never be awake and told him to pray for her. Suddenly he found a Palestine flag lying over there and took that and kept it on his mother and stood there crying loudly and with tears in his eyes, he said" My dear god I am very strong like my mama said to be and I have only my mother in this world and I loved her so much, bye mama...bye mama...Free my Palestine" and he wept.
By Ahsana Kunnathedath
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