Jihad: There is no longer room for continuing the battle... I will die as a martyr now.

Martyr Jihad Malek Hammoud

 

Jihad Malek Hammoud was born on the 13th of April, 1982 in the Southern Suburb of Beirut, but was originally from the Southern village of Beit Leef, which was back then occupied by the Israeli enemy.

Jihad lived in Haret Hreik, and was raised by a faithful family that was strictly committed to the religious laws as well as the Islamic nation causes. Due to that, the parents did not hesitate urging their sons to confront any violation to the nation’s sanctities.

Since youth, Jihad became interested in building up a faithful and devoted character, taking his older brother Ali, who was later martyred in 2004, as a role model.

Ali was known for his noble, lovable as well as loving, and respectful character. He was faithful and passionate for Jihad for the sake of Allah, and so was Jihad who had derived all these characteristics from his older brother.

Due to the war that was taking place and his great passion to fight the enemies, jihad dropped out of school at an early age, and joined the Islamic Resistance in 1996.

He worked with Hezbollah in Beirut, but after his brother, Ali’s martyrdom in 2004, he requested to work in the South; the same sport that Ali had worked in.

In the battlefield:

Jihad was at work in the South when the war in July 2006 broke out, and so he was in the heart of the epic confrontations in Bint Jbeil.

On the 7th of August, 2006, the day that jihad had set before the war as the day of his wedding, Jihad went into two houses in the Massoud Hill area and found Zionist soldiers inside. He killed 12 occupation soldiers in both houses, but he was eventually targeted.

One of his friends said that after the operation was over, jihad was telling him what happened over the handheld transceiver, but suddenly he stopped for seconds and said:“There is no longer room for continuing the battle. I see Imam Ali (as) before me. He’s here to take me with him. I will die as a martyr now,” a few words he said and then he rose a martyr".

The martyr’s body stayed in the battlefield for around 10 days before his fellow resistance fighters were able to pull it out.

He was buried in “Rawdat Al-Shahedein” cemetery in the Southern Suburb of Beirut, next to his brother Ali.

The martyr’s mother was the one who laid him to rest, after sprinkling flowers over his chaste body, like she did with his brother Ali two years earlier.

One day, Jihad’s sister saw him with her brother Ali in her sleep. She recounts that she asked Jihad: How did you meet? Jihad said: When I saw him, we did not say a word. I embraced him for a very long time that I thought we’d become one person. The Prince of Believers imam Ali (as) then looked at us and said: This is how brothers should be like.