Persistence makes heroes.

Martyr Hussein Youssef Salman

Hussein Youssef Salman was born on the 17th of January, 1975 in Ghobeiry, in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.

He was the calm, lovely, and compassionate baby for a family that was faithful, religiously committed, and persistent in performing the Islamic rituals.

Hussein’s family was big as it consisted of 14 members. Due to the civil war that was taking place on the one hand, and the Zionist outrage on the other, the family’s security and financial situation deteriorated, and Hussein had to quit school during the elementary level and start working to help his family.

Since he was a young boy, Hussein was a social person, who unlike the rest of his friends, was interested in making family visits as well as visits to patients. Yet, he used to gather up the kids he knew for some  activities, like playing football or going for swimming, which used to attract the kids to him.

Hussein joined Al-Mahdi Scouts and learned about the Islamic religion, guardianship, as well as Jihad, which made up his character that was passionate for resistance and struggling for the sake of Allah.

Martyr Hussein was not satisfied with the fact that he was not able to attain education. So, he worked on making up for this loss by going through many educational courses, in which he studied in about various subjects. In addition, he used to read books and magazines, which qualified him to become a social and eloquent speaker.

Hussein joined the Islamic Resistance in 1992 and took part in various confrontations with the Zionist enemy.

He also took part in confronting Israel’s 1996 war on Lebanon dubbed “Grapes of Wrath”, where three of his team members were martyred.

In the Battlefield:

On the 17th of July 2006, a group of resistance fighters where firing Katyusha rockets at the occupation settlements in occupied Palestine. One of the fighters was injured by a shrapnel from an Israeli cluster bomb.

Martyr Hussein rushed to get him quick aid, but the Israeli reconnaissance plane surveilled his movement and hit him with a missile.

Hussein was instantly martyred, and the fighter that Hussein war trying to aid also fell as a martyr.

Martyr Hussein’s body was moved after the war to his hometown Majdalzoun in Tyr, where he was buried on the 17th of August 2006.