Father's magnificent frames!

Mehr News Agency; Magazine Group – Zahra Afsar: Perhaps the difference in culture, religion and moral teachings in different countries has caused different nations to have differences in defining concepts with each other. For example, a behavior that is considered a value in the culture of one society, may be an insulting behavior in another society. Or an institution such as the family is very important in one society and less attention is paid to it in another society. But some concepts, in all societies and cultures with all their differences, have the same meaning and are accepted to the same extent. One of those concepts that is valued and praised all over the world and among all societies with different cultures is the concept of “father” and the behavior of “fathering”.

Father has the same meaning all over the world. a kind supporter; a caring supporter; A protective shield for any accident that can happen to the child; From this point of view, the face that we see of the father in the fiction literature and various cinematographic works in the world is almost the same holy face that we know about in our own culture. (Of course, let's skip some of our own black films that try to distort this holy face!)

Many writers and filmmakers in the world have tried to show a face of the father in their works that expresses the essence of this concept. Or many news photographers have tried to show this face in different situations so that it is the closest profile to the reality of this concept. But we can safely say that the best frames and narratives that have been shown to the world about the concept of father in recent years, especially in the last year, have been the fathers of Gaza.

The picture of Jamal al-Dara and his martyred son, Muhammad al-Dara, which was broadcast to the world by a French media in 2000, was known for years (and even now) as a symbolic image of “Father”. The sad picture of Jamal al-Dara and his son during the second Palestinian intifada in 2000 in the Gaza Strip was taken by a French photographer. A 59-second film that showed a Palestinian father and son sheltering behind a metal cylinder in front of Zionist tanks. The boy is scared and crying and the father puts his hand on the boy's back as support and encouragement and waves his other hand to the Zionist tanks as a sign not to shoot. But suddenly the cameraman is attacked and the boy is killed. For years, this image was the most symbolic scene that the media could show about the concept of “father”.

After the 7th of October and the Zionist military attack on the Gaza Strip, even more lasting frames of “being a father” were created in this resistant land. Among the fathers who carried their children between the ruins of Palestinian houses. Those whose homes and lives have been destroyed, but they play the role of home and family for their wives and children.

But among these paternal images were not few, the frames that hurt the hearts of the free people of the world. Among them, the grandfather whose farewell frame with his martyred grandson was shared on the world's social media, and even the great designers of the world made designs based on it, which in their own words was a symbolic and artistic image of “fatherhood”. “Khaled Nabahan” was the grandfather of a girl named “Reem” who lost his granddaughter in the attacks of the Zionist regime on Gaza. The last farewell of this grandfather and grandson became the subject of the media and shortly after, Khaled Nabahan himself was martyred so that he could hug his martyred grandson again.

Another bitter picture of being a father in Gaza was the picture of Mohammad Abul al-Qamsan. A father who had recently had twin children and had gone with all his love, hope and desire to get birth certificates and birth certificates for his children, when he was informed that the residence of his wife and children was attacked and both of his newborn children were sent to They have been martyred. As if the tears of Abu al-Qamsan were the most bitter content that social networks could bear the burden of publishing.

The people of Palestine, especially the people of Gaza, have reminded the people of the world of many forgotten concepts in the past one year and several months. Concepts whose reminder to the world cost the innocent blood of many of these people. But now, on the day of commemorating the position of father, it can be said that the most magnificent frames of fatherhood have been taken by news photographers from the Gaza Strip.