Kfar Riman, Lebanon: “I will not see you after today Mahmoud. I was waiting for you here, at the entrance to our house, [to see you] come back from your absence, which will last long this time,” Oula Abu Zeid, the wife of Adjutant Mahmoud Nour al-Din told The Daily Star as she bid her husband farewell.
The two had only been married four months before Nour al-Din was killed Wednesday attempting to dismantle an explosive device in the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal.
Mourners wailed as soldiers carried the casket during a military procession in remembrance of their colleague before being laid to rest in his hometown of Kfar Riman, in the southern district of Nabatieh.
“Who do I wait for after today,” his wife said before scattering a bundle of flowers on her husband’s casket.
The soldier's mother fainted as the corpse was carried into the house, moments after saying how her son had “left her too soon.”
Nour al-Din’s father, Ali, waxed nostalgic as he remembered tales his son had told him about “his heroism in Baalbek and the Bekaa.”
The soldier's uncle, Abed al-Halim, recalled the last conversation he had with his nephew before his death.
“He told me before his martyrdom that the battle in [the Bekaa] was harsh and that we had to be strong because we were battling both takfiri terrorism and Israel.”
The mourners launched a funeral march as they moved towards the town’s Hussaynia.
Colonel Souhail Azar delivered a speech on behalf of Army Commander Jean Kahwagi, saying that “it was our dear martyr Mahmoud’s fate to quickly join a constellation of righteous companions who were also killed yesterday in the face of treachery and criminality.”
The soldier was killed one day after a militant ambush killed six soldiers on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek, a few miles north of Arsal.
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