After sacrificing his eyesight, he sacrificed his entire life.

Martyr Tayseer Mohammad Zaineddine

Tayseer Mohammad Zaineddine was born on the 6th of August, 1977 in the Southern city of Bint Jbeil. He was the fourth son, but the joy that accompanied his birth resembled to the joy of having the first child.

He was a beautiful baby and because of that, his father called him “Tayseer” meaning “facilitation”.

For her part, the mother used to call him “candle” as she saw him as the light of her life, and so she was strongly attached to him; especially after he had fever in his first year. His health deteriorated and he nearly died because of the Israeli occupation of the South which made transportation between villages almost impossible.

Due to his critical situation, his grandfather had to carry him and walk around five kilometers to reach the hospital of Tebnin. All this made Tayseer’s mother carry special affection to him in her heart.

He started performing the Islamic duties in 1990, and so he became strongly committed to them.

When he was 16 years old, he turned down a job offer in a State institute with a high salary to join the Jihad mobilization of Hezbollah.

His Jihadi name was “Malak” Arabic for “angel”.

Tayseer’s mother was uncomfortable with her son’s work due to the dangers he was exposed to. She constantly waited up for him and asked him to be aware, but Tayseer was convinced of the path he took.

His mother did not live long after that, as she got sick and died on the same year he started working with the Islamic Resistance. Tayseer used to visit her grave every night and stay there for hours.

He used to tell his family: “If I die as a martyr, bury me near my mother.”

He got married in 1998 and had a baby girl whom he named “Malak” after his Jihadi name.

Martyr Tayseer participated in various operations against the Israeli enemy. In 2005, during the resistance anniversary, he was exposed to laser rays while surveilling a Zionist hummer. He lost eyesight in his right eye, and suffered color blindness in his left eye.

In the battlefield:

On the 12th of July 2006, when Tayseer heard about the capturing operation, he started contacting every official he knew to allow him to join the resistance fighters on the front line, but the permission was not granted because of his critical injury.

This did not break his determination, and even though he was not on the front line, he was a hero in the battlefield.

On the 12th of August, after the noon prayers, Tayseer told one of his fellows: “I feel that this prayer is similar to Imam Hussein’s (as) last prayer with his companions in Karbala.”

Indeed this was his last prayer, as after couple of hours Israeli warplanes bombarded the location Tayseer was in, and he was instantly martyred.

On the 17th of August, three days after the war was over, Martyr Tayseer was buried in his village Safad El-Battikh in Bint Jbeil.

Two months after his martyrdom, the martyr’s wife gave birth to a baby boy whom she called “Tayseer”, and so the martyr departed leaving behind both “Tayseer” and “Malak”.