Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان@Marwa__Osman
A message from martyred journalist Amal Khalil... here is a translated transcript of her message:
"We have now completed a full year covering the Israeli aggression on South Lebanon. For an entire year, I have been in the field, day after day, as a correspondent for Al-Akhbar newspaper. This year has been heavy... it has changed us, matured us. It taught us to hold even tighter to our principles, to our beliefs, to the choice of resistance, and to the conviction that resistance alone protects the land, that it alone stands firm against the Israeli enemy, nothing else does.
To everyone who advised me to reduce my movement along the southern border, especially after the Israeli threats I received, my answer was this: our Hussaini faith and our southern, revolutionary upbringing have always taught us to say, "If only we had been with you." And the moment came for me to be with the people of the South the people of truth, who embody the cause of Karbala, who live its teachings. They stand in the face of a tyrant who kills, and in the face of oppression they remain steadfast, speaking the truth. Everything happening to the people of the South is simply because they dare to say "no."
[*call for prayers*: "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah… I bear witness that there is no god but Allah."]
My alignment with the people of the South, my presence among them since the July 2006 war, has always been the right choice. They have always lived up to that faith placed in them. And they will remain so, even after loss. They will grow stronger, more steadfast, and more committed to this unwavering compass, toward truth, and toward Palestine."
~Martyred Journalist Amal Khalil.
