‘Do Not Let Me Die’: Broken Palestinian Talat Begs Malta For Help Moments After Narrow Escape From Death
For Talat Al Hasayna and his family, death has never been closer.
After losing over 80 family members during Israeli military incursions into Gaza, Palestine, causing him to flee as a refugee into the desert, the former businessman’s life has only gotten harder.
“We went through another black night last night,” Talat told Lovin Malta.
“We rented an apartment in a residential building five days ago, and yesterday the upper apartment of our apartment was bombed from the army, where a journalist and his family lived,” he continued.
“The journalist, his mother, and his sister were martyred, and the rest of the family was injured.”
Though Talat didn’t lose any family members in this bombing, it only served to remind him how vulnerable they were to losing their lives in an instant.
“We were miraculously saved again from the Lord, as one of the missiles that did not explode was inside our apartment if it had exploded, I and all my family members would have died in this massacre, but God decreed that it would not explode.”
An unexploded bomb lodged into the building
Having to flee the apartment in the middle of the night, Talat and his family sought shelter in a nearby school.
“We fled to the nearest UNRWA school and were not received there due to the large crowding in the school,” he said.
“We spent our night on the sidewalk of the street at the school gate in the extreme cold, and by the next morning we returned to the bombed house to try to take out our clothes, covers, and mattresses for sleeping, and then we returned again to the tent in which we were living before.”
Talat, who lived in Malta, once again issued a plea to the government and Prime Minister Robert Abela to find a way to bring his family to safety.
“Please, please, please fervently, take me and my family out of here. Please, for the sake of humanity and living consciences, please, please, do not let me die. Please, for the sake of the children and women, for whom I bear responsibility and cannot protect them.”
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