Samer: Life for me is like a glimpse, and I don’t know at which moment I might depart...

Martyr Samer Mohammad Najem

Samer Najem was born in Libya on the 16th of June, 1977, but he was originally from the Al-Taybeh village in south Lebanon.

He returned to Lebanon and lived in Beirut with his family, in a house that was known for its commitment to the Islamic rituals and duties. And so, he learned to recite the Quran, supplications and prayers since he was young.

Samer was known, in his family and among neighbors and friends, as the quick-witted little kid, who also had a strong and courageous personality.

He was also a social, spontaneous, and kindhearted little boy; during assemblies, he used to express his opinion frankly and say: “I’m not a kid, I’m a man and I’m confident of what I say.”

Samer majored in Mechanical Engineering and later chose to take the path of Jihad, and so, he devoted his life to it.

In 1995, Samer started working with Hezbollah.

Among the stories that his mother recounted about him was about how she used to notice the great efforts he was putting in his work with the Islamic Resistance, how exhausted he sometimes felt and how she used to ask him to take some rest.

He used to responded: “Mother, life for me is like a glimpse, and I don’t know at which moment I might depart, so let me work as if I’m departing tomorrow; and because I hate that my death to be cheap, I have chosen jihad as the path to the precious One who values the mujahedeen and martyrs.”

Samer spent 13 years working with the resistance in south Lebanon, and making visits to Beirut to meet with his family whom he used to admire, respect, and miss.

Samer used to treat his family with love and generosity; he used to do the same for his neighbors and friends.

As for his daughter, Nour Al-Zahraa, martyr Samer carried a great unimaginable amount of love for her. He used to say that she was: “the adornment of her father’s life.”

In the Battlefield:

Samer, who had a chronic injury in his leg, engaged in various confrontations with the Israeli occupation soldiers in July 2006.

He was martyred on the 25th of August, 2006, after reassuring to the mujahedeen that “you are the strong ones, you will crush those villains.”

The Zionist forces seized Samer’s body until indirect German mediation resulted in an exchange operation that took place between the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon and the Zionist enemy on the 18th of October, 2007, less than a year before the big exchange operation dubbed “Al-Redwan” after martyr leader Imad Moghniyeh (Hajj Redwan).

On the 27th of the same month Samer’s body was eventually buried in his hometown Al-Taybeh.