arabic → English transcript

I felt that I couldn't continue my work.

That I had been at my job for 17 years, my friend.

In the end it got to the point where they planted a mine in me and blew me up.

I do whatever I'm asked to do.

It doesn't stop with me here.

He told me to ask the doctor whether there's something in the right hand.

I'm like the one they throw the blame at, like a finger they point to, for example.

That it's going fine — the thing I'm involved in is going fine.

About 15 days.

I realized that I had lost my sight.

This is work.

You can't consider it like any ordinary job.

This is work soaked in blood, wounds, and longing.

You must have heard the Sayyid talk about this.

I was very distressed, but I learned that the Sayyid was martyred.

In the end, it was the first wound.

I asked him about Wafiq Safa.

I asked him if the Sayyid was okay.

But after the Sayyid passed away I was very distressed.

There's nothing to say except that we did what was required of us.

All his capabilities were simply those of a young man.

They're fighting him with guns and launching raids to bomb him.

He never actually faced any of the young fighters.

On the contrary, he always goes to the front lines.

They call it a battalion here, but it's just a group.

I'm not trying to downplay it, I mean

And the squad that stopped them consisted of about three young men

A young man would set up the ambush

He'd bait it and take up a firing position

and they'd point you out to the Israelis

And if it succeeded and he got close, it would lead to capture

then they'd fly him away

The force consisted of five battalions

massed on the forward edge

That amounted to 75,000

75,000 means they'd have to occupy not just Lebanon

They would have to occupy the entire Middle East

In reserve there were 5,000 young men

on the forward edge