Published On 4/5/2026
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Last update: 05:41 (Mecca time)
At a moment when life and death collided in the harshest form of contradiction, a young Palestinian man was martyred by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, at the same time and in the same hospital where his wife was giving birth to their first child.
The young man, Nayef Samaro (26 years old), had admitted his wife to Rafidia Hospital while she was in labor, and amidst the atmosphere of joy, he went to central Nablus to buy some sweets and necessities to experience the joy of the arrival of his firstborn, according to Palestinian media.
However, the occupation – which turned the lives of Palestinians into hell and excelled at it – was on the lookout, as its forces suddenly stormed the city and opened fire, wounding a number of citizens, including Samaro.
According to Palestinian media, the ambulance transported the young man to the same hospital where his wife was lying, after sustaining critical injuries to his head, but he died as a result of his injury.
The child was born an orphan, in a scene that activists said reveals part of the occupation’s brutality and crimes against the Palestinians, whether in the occupied territories or in the Gaza Strip, which has been facing – for more than two years – an ongoing war of extermination, despite the ceasefire agreement in effect since last October.
Amidst feelings of sadness, grief, and tears, the father of the martyr Nayef Samaro performed the funeral prayer over his son’s body at the Martyrs’ Roundabout in the center of Nablus, and his body was buried in the streets of Nablus all the way to the cemetery.
The shock to the young man’s family and lovers was great and touching. In the same place, a young man left life at the moment his child was born, who did not hear the sound of his exit into the world, or be able to embrace his first joy.
Perhaps the painful irony lies in the fact that when the child grows up, his birthday will be the same as the anniversary of the passing of his father, whom he did not see, so that his date of birth remains a witness to the crime of the occupation.
That is, oppression
The head of Palestinian Medical Relief, Dr. Ghassan Hamdan, stated that the occupation forces stormed a commercial area crowded with residents to relieve themselves, noting that the martyr was present in one of the streets of the area.
He explained that the occupation army opened fire, wounding the young man, Nayef Samaro, in the head, pointing out that the area of the injury indicates the goal of liquidation and killing.
Hamdan stressed that the Palestinian people need international protection from the occupation army, which he described as criminal, stressing that there is a case of criminality occurring before the eyes of the international community, which praises human rights.
The Palestinian Resistance Movement (Hamas) mourned the martyr Samaro, stressing that his blood and the blood of all the martyrs will not be in vain, but rather will illuminate the path to liberation and defeat of the occupier, calling for the escalation of all means of confrontation and the pain of the occupation.
Writer Magda Mahfouz wondered: “What kind of oppression is this, O world? He takes his wife to Rafidia Hospital to give birth to their first child after a year of marriage, and he goes to buy supplies for the awaited joy, only to be treacherously taken by a bullet that lodged in his head, so he returns carried to the same hospital, but he is a martyr.”