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In the past 24 hours, Deir Ezzor bid farewell to two of its best free young men, who accompanied the Syrian revolution since its beginning and were an example of sacrifice, vigor ,and revolutionary spirit.
The first young man that Deir Ezzor lost was the military commander of the Lions of the East Army, “Mohammed Al-Rajab”, nicknamed “Abu Khattab”, one of the first to join the Free Syrian Army in his city of Al-Ashara in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. He was responsible for manufacturing weapons and explosives in the Bashayer Al-Nasr Brigade. He made Assad’s forces taste the horrors during his raids with his comrades in “Bashaer Al-Nasr”, before they left home for the desert and formed the Lions of the East Army, of which he later became the military commander.
Two days ago, a landmine laced with the poison of the Iranian-backed militias in the eastern desert of Deir Ezzor surprised him, and he ascended as a martyr after seeing victory over the Assad regime and its henchmen, thus achieving the policeman of the free “victory and martyrdom”.
The second young man that Deir Ezzor bid farewell to, and the arenas of struggle mourned him, and the phrases written for the sake of freedom inherited him, is the young man “Ahmed Al-Ali” nicknamed “Abu Alawi”, one of the heroes of the peaceful movement against the Assad regime and ISIS. He led the peaceful struggle against The tyrants in his region “Al-Shaitat” in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and was the engine to incite the revolutionary sense when the winds of despair blow, and the motive towards continuing the struggle against the Assad regime and its militias, Daesh and the SDF.
He chose to cross the Euphrates River and reach the city of Al-Ashara, yesterday, and participate in the funeral of his friend and brother in the revolution “Mohammed Al-Rajab”, and he did not know that he was saying goodbye to him for only a few hours, and upon his return to his town, treacherous hands watched him and fired a bullet at him that was enough to shed his blood and ascend his soul to its Creator.
Their killing left a funeral in every free house in Deir Ezzor, and they were mourned by the near and far of the sons of the Syrian revolution, to record their names after their death in the records of the free who drew the path of freedom.