Just two hours ago, I left the morgue at Nasser Medical Complex, carrying a weight of sorrow too heavy to describe. It wasn’t only the sight of countless bodies, the blood, or the unbearable smells—
it was a moment etched in my memory that broke me.
The shock wasn’t in the number of martyrs, but in the voice of a grieving father bidding farewell to his daughter. His sons were pulling him away from the morgue, tears falling faster than his steps, as he trembled and cried out:
“How can you leave your sister alone in the fridge? Shame on you… it’s full of young men in there. How can you bear it? That’s your precious sister… my darling… she’s afraid of the dark, please, I beg you, bring her back!”
He stared at the morgue’s cold door as if it were a bottomless pit. His eyes, wide with shock, seemed ready to burst from his face, until he finally walked away—
crying, broken, leaving behind his daughter… a martyr.
This isn’t just one story.
It’s one of hundreds of thousands we, as journalists, don’t just witness—we live, carry, and bleed with every single day.