In the video of the airport, Mohammad Sami and Tamer Institute’s youth teams visit the remains of Gaza’s International Airport. Mohammad dreams of seeing Palestine from above, as says in the film “I wish I can see the city from above”. How do you see the city today, Mohammad?
Mohammad Sami Qreqe’, 24 years old, was the heart of the art studio at Tamer Institute. He was active in every initiative, every step and every activity with us at Tamer. He was the first to arrive and the last to leave. His own art project was connecting technology with art, through creating QR codes that preserve Palestinian art from theft by the “Israeli” occupation.
The occupation displaced you from your home in Al Shuja’yeh on the 13th of October, and now the occupation steals you from us with the atrocious crime they committed when bombing the Baptist Hospital in Gaza. The occupation took you and over 500 souls from which most were children. We lost them all and sorrow engulfs our hearts and our ability to believe this reality.
We will miss you here at Tamer Institute, in Al Shuja’yeh, and in the art studio. Your colleagues from the youth teams will miss you, and the children and the schools you volunteered in will miss you. We will miss you and all the children, as we declare that your laughter, paintings and voice is here among us. Your soul is rising high, protecting Gaza and Palestine from above where you are looking out on the city with the children around you, flying and smiling.
Freedom, justice and security to all our children and families in Gaza.
