Ahead of Egypt’s game against Argentina, at the pre-game press conference, a Turkish reporter asked Egypt’s head coach Hossam Hassan about his emotions after the team’s last win against Australia, where the coach waved the Palestinian flag and dedicated the win to the Palestinian people.
He responded: ”First of all, I welcome you and the Turkish people. Everyone has feelings and emotions.
If there is anyone in the world who does not feel for the Palestinian people, then they are not human. It doesn’t matter whether they are Arab, European, or from anywhere else.
Even people in Europe and the United States care deeply about animal rights when animals are mistreated.
So what about human rights, when children and women are subjected to attacks every single day?
We are sitting comfortably in our air-conditioned homes with food and water, while another people are living in the streets with no food, no water, no shelter, and facing destruction.
If we cannot feel for what is happening in Palestine, then we have lost our humanity. It has nothing to do with whether someone is Muslim or Christian, or with their nationality. This is not about religion or citizenship.
To anyone speaking about this issue, I would ask them to imagine living just one day on the streets -with no food, no water, nowhere to keep warm in the cold, and nothing to protect you from the heat in the summer.
It is a disgrace to all of us, and to the entire world, that the Palestinian people are living under such conditions while others live in comfort around them.
I am a human being before I am an Arab or an Egyptian. This has nothing to do with religion or nationality – it is about humanity.
Through football, we are sending a message to the whole world: Please, let the Palestinian people live. Please, let them live.”
What does it feel like to sleep in a bed?
To wake up and wash your face at a sink in front of a mirror?
To open your closet and pick out what you want to wear from your nice, clean clothes?
To make a cup of coffee with ease?
To drink cold water?
What does it feel like to turn the lights on and off, whenever you feel like it?
Or to plug your phone in or take it out of the charger whenever you want?
What about having internet all the time?
What about the feeling of a home? Its atmosphere, its smell?
What does it feel like to see yourself looking nice and beautiful in the mirror?
What about laughing with your family at the dining table?
Or being able to run to the store as soon you decide that you want to buy something?
What about the feeling of closing your bedroom door to be alone because you’re depressed?
Or to sit on a balcony or in a garden?
What about watering the plants?
What’s the feeling of doing dishes at the sink, with a lot of water and good-smelling soap?
Oh yeah, and what does it feel like to have a washing machine?
What does it feel like to have your own space?
Or to pray by yourself, in a place of peace and solitude?
Or to walk on beautiful roads?
And what’s it like to go to work?
To go to class? To study? To go to practice? To take exams?
What does it feel like to hang out with friends? And to sit in your favorite place?
What does it feel like to hear a catchy song in the car?
Or to go to the sea because you miss it?
My people, what does it feel like to miss someone and to go see them? Without long distances and lines of graves separating you?
Or to see your family and friends everyday?
Tell me again. A house. A home. What does it feel like?
What does it feel like to go up and down the stairs? To move around, from room to room. To take a shower, in a shower stall, in a bathroom.
I forgot! What does nice, clean water feel like? And soap and shampoo?
And how, and how, and how…
We have forgotten this all.
Please remind us.
did a rookie mistake for forgetting to take my card back at the ATM just now.
hilang sekelip mata. nama je working in finance and financial security.
i is stoopid 🤡
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.