Gaza's fallen fighters watch over uneasy truce » Kuwait Times Website
The clouds of war may have parted over the Gaza Strip but Hani al-Qayed still stands watch over his family home, looking down from a gaudy portrait that honors his death in an Israeli air strike. The veteran Palestinian fighter, blown to pieces in 2006, lives on with thousands of his comrades on the martyrdom posters that line Gaza's dusty streets, an army of ghosts haunting the impoverished, war-battered territory. "His body was destroyed but his soul, his spirit, lives on," his black-veiled widow Tawhida
says. "The portraits are so that the people will remember him-not us, because we can never forget-but others.
The clouds of war may have parted over the Gaza Strip but Hani al-Qayed still stands watch over his family home, looking down from a gaudy portrait that honors his death in an Israeli air strike. The veteran Palestinian fighter, blown to pieces in 2006, lives on with thousands of his comrades on the martyrdom posters that line Gaza's dusty streets, an army of ghosts haunting the impoverished, war-battered territory. "His body was destroyed but his soul, his spirit, lives on," his black-veiled widow Tawhida
says. "The portraits are so that the people will remember him-not us, because we can never forget-but others.
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